And Quotes

You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.

The true source of happiness is within each of us.

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider.

Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

Death. It's around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It's too sad. Too painful. Too hard. The list of reasons is endless.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

Women destroy me. I allow them to.

Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

Deep inside, the majority of people had the sneaking suspicion that evil was more powerful than good and could be counteracted only by more evil.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.