if you like Black colour, perhaps you're emotional

surprise it's better than promises

Everything happens for a reason but sometimes the reason is because you are stupid

Not every good thing in life will remain forever

Hope is the most evil of all emotions

If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!

Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

All life is a test one way or the other.

Image of a girl holding a blaster to a twin’s temple. “Remember, bi***. You can’t spell ‘danger’ without DNA.” Blam.

In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

It's the end game that people dread and that's what I'm scared of