So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on singing.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

I was always on my oddy knocky.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.

You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

Who you talk to is just as important as what questions you ask and what you pull away from it.

When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.

I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.