When people show you who they are, believe them.

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

People show you who they are, not by what they say, but by what they do.

There is something magical about young love, when you still think that the world is your oyster and you have your whole life ahead of you.

Bad things always happen in three.

You discover something so awful, so life-changing, the only way you can cope is to jump straight into denial.

The fact is that blaming doesn't get you anywhere. It keeps you stuck. Blaming stops you from moving on with your life.

My cat has been Petrified.I want to see some punishment!

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

And he’s just plain odd. And what is your problem that you keep putting yourself in my way? (Geary) She’s feisty, Skotos. I can see the appeal. (ZT)

After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger?

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.