I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

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.

You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe

You have no sense of your true duty, which is to be a man and preserve humanity. You imitate wise men so badly and bandits so well. Your movies and radio programs are full of murder.

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

Believe in yourself, believe in your future.

The Democrat Party can't provide, can't take care of, cannot provide prosperity for people.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.