And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

It’s most unfair. Once people find out you’re a vampire they act as if you’re some kind of monster.

He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles.

The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

One just soul can attain pardon for a thousand sinners.

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

There's not that many surprises that you get in life.

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.