“It isnt easy when life tears away the one person in a million you thought you could always trust.”

“Madness doesnt get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.”

“Humans arent concerned with reality, merely their perceptions of it.”

“I havent got time for a love life and thats usually frustrating to the would-be lovers. Care to make a run for it?”

“. Were both... I mean, youre more so, but were both really fucked up emotionally. I mean, how do I know youre not still loopy from being shot full of... of...Benzodiazepine, he said.Yes, that. Vict...”

“I see a cathedral, for instance, one thats stood for centuries and I marvel and I wonder... How many people passed through the doors? What did they pray for? How many wars did they wish to see ende...”

“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.Le...”

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine...”

“Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?”

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book tak...”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”