The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn’t.
It always seems to be cool in the houses of old people, have you noticed?
I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond.
A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable.
Una idea es como un microbio del resfriado: tarde o temprano siempre hay alguien que lo pille.
El culpable huye cuando nadie lo persigue.
Los que pueden, lo hacen; los que no pueden, cuestionan las decisiones de los que pueden.
To know, I have to write.
When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-.
His kid brother had been smart enough to make something of himself in the big world; Ollie himself might have been smart enough to stay ahead of the bank loans and the credit cards, but not much more.
In America, where surface has always passed for substance, people always believe guys like Frank Dunning.
The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that’s been misused by a lot of people.
Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.