I have been writing now for over a week. I find it cleansing, refreshing; it is good for me.” (p.531)

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.

We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves.

I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.

I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.

He had the compassion of a vivisectionist.

...love's shadow is jealousy.

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

Leo grabbed the neasrest thing he could find- a Porta-Potty seat- and threw it at the face. Leve me alone!

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

The Vice-President is supreme boss of the Senate.