How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing.

It's just people trying to get on TV, not like it's really going to do them any good since people can just watch me.