The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

For no matter what the world, men who deal in headwear are men to be trusted above any other.

But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed?

I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?"

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.

I'm stronger than you are, Redd.

Most of life is unbearable. It’s unbearable but we bear it

You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.

Music is obsession.Like jumping in a river and getting swept away, too fast, too hard, hoping that you find an eddy somewhere that will let you gasp for air.

Canada reminds me of vichyssoise - it's cold half-French and difficult to stir.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.