I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.

I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

It's only life. We all get through it.