Win as though you were used to it, and lose as if you like it.

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

Make peace your purpose in the garden of life.

...causing her eyes to bulge and her tongue to flick from behind her luscious lips, scaring away insects." — Amok 2015

I'm not interested in fame at all.

Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

Faith is trusting in the good. Fear is putting your trust in the bad.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.