My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.

Having a friend made everything else suck less.

Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.

Could he hear my heart pounding?

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.

The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin.

Tell me this is a nightmare

It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.

I could never hate you, even if I wanted to.

Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.

Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead.

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

I was cured all right.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.