The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.