My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.

Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.

dont dwell on the past when the future smiles bright and the present is by your side

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

I know it won't be eight medals again. If you want to compare me to that, that's your decision, not mine. I'm going out there to try to accomplish the things that I have in my mind and in my heart.

The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

It doesn't matter what one says; it matters what one does.