Hell isn’t fire and brimstone. It’s New York City.

Fear gives people their humanity. Fear of loss.

A young body, a young heart, and endless courage. That last part is the most important. Don’t let anyone tell you any differently. Why do you think we used to send so many kids your age off to war?

You can learn a lot about a person through their dreams. It’s your subconscious, split open and bare for all to see.

I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.

People say things are going to be Hell without even the slightest notion of what Hell is.

They say you’re only as old as you feel but try telling that to a ninety-year-old on their deathbed, just wishing he could do all the bloody things he wants to do.

I never realized how much I loved life until I knew it was being taken away.

There must be relaxation in full extension.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

If it hurts, it isn't love.

Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.

No insignificant person was ever born.

I just want you to know who I am.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment