Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.

Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

To have someone who's got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be cherished.

Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

Give yourself some credit for the work you put in with your own two hands. But remember to never forget the people and things that have helped you along the way.

War is the usual condition of Europe.

When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that.