Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

I'm only telling you on the truth, " he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?

Never be an insincere friend, never be manipulative, one day you will be discovered and lose everything

All hurt is brain hurt.

Today I’m going to pretend I’m dead. I wonder if anyone will notice." - excerpt from: freefalling

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.