“We don’t know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.”

Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Sometimes when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you’re living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.

Love isn’t soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

Life is never easy, but hoping for the best isn’t the solution. Wake up and make the change by yourself.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.

Love is also a powerful weapon in the world. It sometimes can hurt people, kill people or maybe change a person.

Sometimes the things we can’t change are the ones that change us.  

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Try saying nothing negative for a day and watch your life change.

People keep changing colours time and again. Today your words have so much value and you stress for their opinion, tomorrow you don’t even exist to them.