If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away

Rise to the occassion which is life!

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.

I sure would like to get kissed.How would that feel on my mouth, How different would I be after, a changed climate down in my insides?

He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them.

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

It all comes down to money.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.