Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

Human soul is a car and human body is a driver. One cannot run without the other.

Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

The soldier is the army.

Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

Secrets are very intriguing - I always think thats an interesting theme.

I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.