When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.