He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.

Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further.

When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.

I wanna design a video game where you'd have to take care of all the people shot in all the other video games.

You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.

Senator Joseph McCarthy was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.