The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.