Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.

The reward of a work is to have produced it

If you are not willing to serve God in the abundance that He has given you, then you will have to serve your enemy in hunger

But women living in fear of aging, and pulling painful and expensive tricks to hide it from the world, does not say something amazing about us as humans.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

Something you're aware of being a quarterback coming here-you have expectations, and you want to live up to those.

My priorities are my family and my job. I have little time for much else.

I don't dress to be stared at. I dress for myself.