We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.

I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor

They won the war but lost the peace.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

Your thoughts become your BELIEFS. Your beliefs become your TRUTH. Your truth becomes your STORY. Your story IS your REALITY.

Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.

Give me a man who steals a little and I can make money

The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.