I was getting away with something in my own way. But then I get here and saw you, brain-dead and with tubes coming out of every part of your body. And I realized I wasn’t...

You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.

Yes, he’s an equal opportunity asshole,” Szilard said. “And he’s aware of it, which he thinks means it’s okay.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.

problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.6. You may also be twelve.7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible...

To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you’ve already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

asshole.

Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it’s not everyone else that’s the problem.

It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

What is it like when you lose someone you love?” Jane asked. “You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering...

Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child,” Papa continued. “Jack Holloway did get that son of a bitch. Jack Holloway...

The problem with aging is not that it’s one damn thing after another—it’s every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quid...

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins — as do all worthy stories — with a goat

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

I think back to the day I stood before my wife’s grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that...

Is it painful?” the groundskeeper asked. “I am asking for science.

When you’re a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you’re an inconsequential worm in the grand scope of history. But you’re an inconsequential worm who makes shit up for a...

post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are standing with their loved ones and neighbors are in fact doing exactly what Jesus asked them to do, when he said that we should love each...