Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

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.

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

Union with [True] Knowledge is ‘Principle’ [Established Truth] and union with the three [mind, speech and body] is ‘non principle’ [absence of principle].

IF WE DIE FOR THEM, I'LL KILL YOU, HARRY!

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti. (Follow your road and let the people say).

The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.