It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.

I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

They won the war but lost the peace.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

I had a dream about you last night... You replaced all the people in your life with kittens. It felt more like a prediction of the future.

This self-reliance, this direct dealing with the world, seemed to him, even in the height of his concern, unwomanly, a deeper injury to his own abandoned assumptions than any he had contemplated.

The biggest gift to oneself is affording yourself a chance to learn.

I like critics with strong opinions.

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

Bad things happen because we live in a world with evil.