Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

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.

I will be all that I am capable of being.

Is there climate change? I live in the shadow of some of the greatest climate change the world has ever seen. It's called the Rocky Mountains. When the glaciers went back.

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.

I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people we want to love.

You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

Night was running ahead of itself.

Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see the world through your fears, poverty multiplies all around you.

Anything that you think is wild or fun, or can't wait to see or show your friends, go for it.

The number one quality is charisma. You have to be able to connect with the audience. That is that magic "it" factor that designates a star from someone who is just never going to be a star.