Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Oppression is the seed of power

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.

I just haven't let myself get to a place where I've felt a part of any kind of a community, so I've always stayed outside of it.

That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.

To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Guarding LeBron James has to be the hardest job in basketball.