My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it's like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn't true, and books were really the educational system that showed me that there were many better and different ways to live a life.

Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find.

Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image