We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.

Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.