The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it.

The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose, ' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.

The criminal mind is perverted and convoluted but almost invariably unimaginative, 'he said as Molly came out in a fluster

He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.

What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison...

Hotel Conundrum: The continental breakfast. What is it that makes continents so shitty at providing an adequate breakfast?

Are you afraid of the dark?” I asked.“No. Monsters aren't real. This is real. I'm scared of what could happen when the lights go out.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

It's so important to do something every day that will make you happy

The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.

I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?