the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

Are you being obedient, or just martyring yourself for another good cause?

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.

Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.