“I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.”

“Interesting fact from the front lines: raw grief smells like ripped leaves and splintered branches, a jagged green shriek.”

“If her mind had held even the smallest chance of a future, she would have had no reason to tell me anything at all, whether or not it could send her to prison. But this is what I know about people ...”

“For as long as I could remember, a part of me had been waiting for the day it would happen; with the cunning that comes to people whose minds have been stripped to one desire, she picked the only d...”

“But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth a...”

“One of the reasons I love Murder is that victims are, as a general rule, dead... I don't make a habit of sharing this, in case people take me fore a sicko or- worse-a wimp, but give me a dead child...”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”

“The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.”

“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.”

“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”