Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

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.

Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

Love is not blind - it sees more not less. But because it sees more it is willing to see less.

Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.