. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.