A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.

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.

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

I'm a disciplinarian. I'm the tough love pet owner. I believe in very well-behaved animals.

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.

Prayer is the supreme way to be workers together with God.