"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

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“Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.”
“I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.”

Source : Life Interview, January 1991.
“Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.”
“God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...”
“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”
“We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.”
“The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.”
“Evanlyn opened her mouth to scream. But the horror of the moment froze the sound in her throat and she crouched, openmouthed, as death approached her. It was odd, she thought, that they had dragged her here, left her overnight and then decided to kill her. It seem such a pointless way to die.”

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