We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

Ice is for death and endings.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

A hand fought best when it made a fist.

He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.

A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.

I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

I think there are a lot of crazy guys that I've played with in the past. Wayne VanDorp, when I played in Chicago. He wasn't a big name, but my God was he nuts.

It isn’t what you say that counts, it’s what you don’t say

I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

I wish people had half the honor of dragons.