And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

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.

A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea.

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

The cruelest lies are often told without a word The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

If we were to do as well as we know, our salvation would be secure.

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.

I don't follow trends. I just do what I like and what I can.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

I have no intention of ever working with the (Spice) girls again.