All of his life had been about making sure I kept mine.

You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.

Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow.

Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath. 'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala--why am I even arguing about this with you?

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

There are a lot of truths in this world. When it rains it pours. It's always darkest before the dawn. He who smelt it dealt it.

Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now.

You're the little spoon, aren't you?

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

Why is it always the world? Why is it never just half a block? Or Jersey? You know, something we could live without?

People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

It’s your life to live. Own it! You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

You kids were all planned, you were just planned really, really quickly.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

Social media is dangerous for baseball players. Things can get taken out of context so fast. You can say something you don't want to say. It's dangerous.

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

You can recognize the Spirit of Christ within you when you speak to one another or speak of another person with a warm smile instead of with a frown or scowl.

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.