In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.

I tell him there'll be an army waiting for him, and your friend is only concerned with the color of their uniforms. What's this really about?"Max shrugged. "A girl."I glared at Max. "Dude. Shut up.

What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands?

How are you still sane?""Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me."Shit.

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

We must endure the present circumstances for a far greater future.

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else.

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

I will say I am the sum of my books.