Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.

Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice.

I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Terror. When you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you-you hear it-you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around there’s nothing there.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.