If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don’t want to do something, no one can help you

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.

Living is not enough

To let something go is to participate in a much greater dance that we call life.

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.

When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.