Greg Iles

...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

I don__ really understand the world anymore. But maybe there__ some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We__e still in the cave. It__ just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die. . .

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.