The people who make you cry are the people who aren't worth crying over.

Is that all?" she whispered.Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.

Don't be mad at me for my success. Be mad at yourself for not doing what it takes to get what I have. Then do something amazing with that emotion.

...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Let your heart speak to others hearts.

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.

Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.