I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The best lies are always at least partially true.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

Apollo wanted out. Out of Aphrodite, out of this bathroom, out of this house, and out of this life.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

Never, never tell jokes about a man with easy access to weapons of mass destruction.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.