Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

As a species we're fundamentally insane.

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.

I am religious in the sense that I believe in God and I believe that there is an abiding logical spirit that controls what goes on to a certain extent.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.