The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)

I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.’ He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. ‘I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here.

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.