Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

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.

Be good to yourself. If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?

Better to honor the pinch of fear than regret the punch of fang.

I can see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.

I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an instrument any other way than by myself.

Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.

In indolent vacuity of thought.