“I'd like nothing better than to say that I was not afraid of Islam.”

“Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.”

“I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.”

“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.”

“..however she was a woman and I'd have more luck conjuring up the thoughts of a chinaman than I would figuring out what she was conspiring”

“Beh oui. Better sticky than burned.”

“Better our evil empire than theirs.”