Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.

What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

Law without reason is criminal.

Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.