The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

Change and renewal are themes in life, aren't they? We keep growing throughout life.

Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.

My childhood was marked by seizures, which my family interpreted as temper tantrums.

Not. Your. Fault." I nodded again, holding onto his words like they were redemption.

there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one

He's already chasing you. Now all you have to do is keep running. Just not too fast.

People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature.

We moved around a lot when I was kid. I'd lived in three continents before I was 12.

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.'

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

One can't be too dangerous, if they like to eat pancakes. Especially with jam on it.

I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.

Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.

All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.

Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.

Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

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