I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Wooing a woman is like fishing

one idiot can shut 1000 wise men mouths, where as 1000 wise will fail to open the eyes of an idiot.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

I've heard there are vegan corn dogs - I don't know if that's true but, jeez, I'd love to eat one of them.

When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.

I would hope I would inspire kids everywhere to know that you can do anything you put your mind to.