When you have to jump, you jump.

Don't let the brownies bite.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

Hard to call it a party without sardines.

There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

A man that is down doesn't fear to fall.

True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.

I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?

Fans are my favorite thing in the world.