Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

To dance is to give channel to the Creator.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.

I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

I dont care what you do fo you respect, but i would die for mine