“Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.”

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Time is the thief of memory.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time to write. Simple as that.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

What we live by we die by.

Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.