We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.

Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.

It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.

Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.

If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.

Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t.

Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.

I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.

Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.

It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

If you're a gunfighter, you like to die in the street.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

I am very impressed by the thinking that went into The Clarity Box. David Regal is diabolical.

Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard