The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Kindness danced through the streets, leaving warmer hearts and smiles everywhere it dared to show itself.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

I wear leather underwear!

I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.

In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.

It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.