Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

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.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Is there chance to see Robot Vs Robot fight?

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Barnsley have started off the way they mean to begin.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result.

We do not know the value of Christ, if we will not cleave to Him unto death!

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.