Evan Price is not a man to be questioned. He is a man who will question you.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

Beauty becomes beautiful only when it is shared with others.

Entrepreneur, become so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

Write what you feel like writing at first without worrying about how it sounds. That's what second drafts are for. Enjoy the first one!

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.

Stop praying. Start thinking.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.