"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.

Rain woke him, a slow drizzle, his feet tangled in coils of discarded fiberoptics. The arcade's sea of sound washed over him, receded, returned. Rolling over, he sat up and held his head.

Stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.

If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

I'm really good at solitaire and I can turn my arms in full circles.