Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Sometimes the solution of a problem is just the perspective of thinking.

For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity?

The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep.

Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.

We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.