The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

It's the family you choose that counts.

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

Stop worrying about your circumstances, God is already busy creating some brighter days for you. You definitely weren't brought here on earth to live as a failure.

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

The times they are a-changing.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.