How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.

Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove

I was now privy to how a calm, average, peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.

Some say crying purges. I say it drains. There’s a difference. One takes the bad things from you to help close a space. The other opens you and leaves you empty

Love is alcohol.

Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.

If you don't know how, why pretend?

I've got the utmost respect for Wayne.

Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

Every road i traveled led back to you

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen