I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

A weed is a plant out of place.

Permission to disregard your orders, Underqueen." "Permission not granted. Permission categorically denied.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

From a very early age, as far back as I can remember, I always played sports.

If you wanna help, inspire, uplift, don't point the blame and talk down.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Chaos at the bottom means order at the top. Order at the bottom means chaos at the top.

Whether I appear in 'Avatar 2' or 'Avatar 3', I always feel I'm a part of the 'Avatar' team.

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!