If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that's all right with fire. As far as fire is concerned, that's what those things are there for in the first place.

Ready...set-y...spaghetti!

Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.

I love talking to people and hearing their stories. Everyone's got their own story to tell, and when you sit down with someone and really talk to them, you can learn so much.

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.

I am stronger than my trials.

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

I'm half good and I'm half bad. My mama is a very good girl and my daddy is a very bad boy. And I guess that leaves me somewhere sort of...here.

Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

The bigger a man's gun the smaller his doodlewick.

Music is a passion of mine. Im always listening, always learning.

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

In high school I was an outcast I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom stall because that was the one place I could go where I wouldn't been seen.