A slice of pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.

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.

It was almost painful to be different.

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

I can remember my first one-night stand like it was yesterday. Well, maybe not the first. Or the second... or the fifth. I'll just begin with what I can remember and not concern myself with order.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

I've always been a draw-er, all throughout elementary school I was the "kid who draws".

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.