As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

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.

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Silence is what causes most of humanities problems.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

If something is inevitable, it will happen

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.

You don't hear me lambasting, engaging in personal attacks, getting nasty. I don't think that belongs in politics.