You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

There's something ugly about the flawless.

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How many?” “Fish,” Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.

What molds us is what maims us.

Education consensus is through exchange of ideas" Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh

Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

I read science fiction every single day of my life. It's my primary love.

Girls want to be with guys who have a sense of humor-it makes them far more attractive to us.

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.

A permanent path That, once illuminated, Goes ever onward - a way home.

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.