Bad news should always come after lunch.. first thing in the morning everything left a bruise.

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.

We both loved the birds and animals and plants. We both felt far happier out of doors. I felt a peace in nature that I could never find in the human world, as you know.

I create my music for fun not because I have to, that is why it sounds magical and unique

When you believe it, you've created it, whatever it is

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

I was born in a hospital. I do not want to die in one.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.

the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.

It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.

Reprisals are but a sad resource.