If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.

Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat sauce. Oh well, he'd eaten worse.

My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

We was half stupid, a third lucky, and three-quarters ferocious.

You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more.

No such word as can't. No such word as babagoozle neither!

Writing is a bit like being a god

He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, ' said Maxie.'I know how that feels, ' said Blue.'I think some Pharaoh had that carved on his tomb, ' Maxie added.'Yeah? Times don't change much, do they?

Remember what I done for you here today, ' he shouted and passed out.

I’m different, ” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

He wasn’t gullible enough to be bullied by the ghost’s accusation – for Andrew Fletcher had his share of guilt, but he’d never thrown anyone down a well, either.

Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

When we are adding to those around us, the world, ourselves, it feels good and right on levels we cannot even consciously connect with.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.