Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings...

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

There is a sacred cost for everything.

Most people think it's normal to have a nameless sorrow at the bottom of your soul.

Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

Let's go, Kitten, before you kill someone else. -Bones

I like to organize. I have an opinion. I like to get stuff done.

People must get respect for their new ideas.

I hate being thought of as a product.

I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.