Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.