Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don’t want to do something, no one can help you

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.

The US exports democracy, hence there being very little left for Americans

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

You can tell if someone's into you. You can feel the chemistry.

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.

Samassi Abou don’t speak the English too good.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.