A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

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.

When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.

The cause of depression and stress are negative thoughts, Be positive, never infect your mind with negative thoughts.

Struggle forms character

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.

I've been associated with Warren ( Buffett) so long, I thought I'd be just a footnote.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes you think I'm a virgin?" I asked. "You wouldn't have hit me if you weren't.

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?