Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

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.

Those yellow eyes had seen the thing Ruby hid, even from herself. And when two people see a thing, for better or worse, it becomes real.

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

Lady," she whimpered softly, wondering if she would meet her wolf again when she was dead.

It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now

Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.

I'm really into a lot of different music, and a lot of stuff that sounds absolutely nothing like anything on the Mini-Album.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist