Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

You were built for this moment.

He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.

Hope is but the dream of those that wake.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

I wear what fits Ghostface; I'm not gonna wear anything that makes me look strange.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

I actually love actors.

Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.