A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Your level of neuroses will only find love in a made-for-TV movie.

They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.

One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.

If people talk about you behind your back, that would mean you are in front, so stay ahead.