the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

It is always the soul and brain that really matters

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.

When you set a goal, you have a responsibility to yourself to see it through. No matter how impossible it may seem, resolve to accomplish it.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are mild and conciliatory.

You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you feel about them.

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.