Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Andrius, I'm...scared." He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

What do you do with all this bank, Josie? Be a lot easier if you just lifted your skirt.” “The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

They say Paul Gascoigne is the new George Best but has he shagged three Miss Worlds?

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else.

Trying is not enough. We have to go out and set goals and measure definitive progress so that four years from now we are in a better position to add new voters to our base of support.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.