If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.

Sometimes the universe conspires to give you what you really want, Liam. And it’s your job to let it.

Perhaps the so-called civilized world was a great noisy burden beneath all its wonders, and it was a relief to let go of it for a while.

Life is naught but battles big and small, and most of them unexpected.

Aye, well, it’s like a battle. Ya lay yer plans, then when they go wrong, ya make things up as ya go.

Funny how being a grown-up didn’t make you any less glad to have a mom on the scene. Whether it was your own or someone else’s mother, it was like having the cavalry arrive.

Education and assimilation were devastatingly effective at controlling a conquered people.

Shit. Shit. Shit. He’d known he couldn’t save her. He’d known he was too far away. Knowing didn’t prevent the bare-knuckled punch to his heart, though.

I’m almost used to you showing up without shoes, but where the hell are your pants?

Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't.There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

We make our own luck. I believed that, too. We chose our own fate. We controlled our own future. I knew what I wanted. I needed to go get it.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.

Prayer is the voice of faith.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I'm a keep running through the red light living my life.

Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!