When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.