There’s an innocence to her still that amazes me. Sometimes I forget she’s older than me. Then, I remember that she hasn’t gone through what I’ve gone through.

I know you don’t understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward, ” he says.

I don’t give sick days if you’re playing in the snow.” He’s being funny, or trying to be funny. I can never tell which.

At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.

I’ll rid the world of each one of you, ” he whispered. “Every single one…

Who am I kidding? This isn’t a fairy tale. It’s my life.

This world isn’t a fair place, because we never know how much time we’ve really got.

It’s not really outstanding when you’re standing outOutcry is the only outburst, if you can’t shout

Today . . . when Satan worship is increasing at an alarming rate, we had better be aware of him, his origin, his aims, his abilities, and his limitations.

Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard enough.

When you do have really tapped out resources that cover so many investigations, it can help you move through and discard some faster.

On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.