"Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff."

“Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.”

Source : Greg Iles (2004). “The Footprints of God”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

“The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s the Orthodox versus those who don’t think they can keep all six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Bible. It’s rich people versus poor people. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideas—and everyone else is an enemy. It’s a dialogue among deaf people and it is getting more and more serious.”

Source : "The One-state reality" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2014.

“Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.”

“I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”

“I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.”

“The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2010). “The Cardturner: A Novel About Imperfect Partners and Infinite Possibilities”, p.260, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”