Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.