There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.
No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.
Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!
It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.
Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.
It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!
Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.
I don't think people were put here to be happy. I think if you decide to be an artist or a writer, you automatically accept the responsibility of being alone. However, after your 50 or 60 years are up you'll be able to look back and see this output that you've done that will endure long after you're gone, and will continue to fill the minds of millions of people.
When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely.
After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.
we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from grace and regeneration.