Dude, you’re scaring the crap out of me,’ said Nick. ‘I’m serious, I literally have no crap right now.
It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.
Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.
Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. ‘God.’ ‘Science.’ Meaning.
We are creature of darkness and light, capable of barbarism and limitless cruelty, and also love, and laughter and the creation of the most sublime beauty. We are both these things, clearly, but which are we more of?
If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. But rather, to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming …. WoW, what a ride.
In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who’s getting screwed.
There’s no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.
Don’t make another’s pain the source of your own happiness.
One of the things that’s unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more realistic attitude about who their politicians are. They know they are human and not saints or Mormons or Eagle Scouts.
Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.
True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.
There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.