It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

Only when we are truly lost are we free to choose our own path.

If we had given up too soon, we would have miss success.

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't.

I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."