All men of honor are alone.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!

If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.

If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

The earth grieves, and I grieve, and I am weary of the fight

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

No wide road leads to God.

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.

This is really a dream come true. To be the starting quarterback in the Super Bowl is probably the highlight of my life.