And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

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.

To be as pure and perfect as a flower, you must think and dream like a flower.

Every New Year brings new expectations, new enthusiasms and new experiences.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy the only evil that walks invisible.

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

I don't like to generate too many expectations.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves, our own will-to-live, which comes from within ourselves.

It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.

Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.