Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it, I haven't tried to revise it, I haven't tried to polish it. It's like having a little bit of a runway. The next day when you sit down, you have the comfort of saying, well, I have got a little bit here, used to be in the typewriter. Now it's in the magic box, the computer.

Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.