Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet conscience—much cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of their fellow citizens.

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye.

The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.

Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.

God is Spirit - without the Holy Spirit you cannot relate to Him.