Do you drink?""Of course, I just said I was a writer.

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.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.

My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for me as I round third...and I make him drop it. That's a quality Super Bowl.

Like everyone on the set has to take [herpes medication] Valtrex. We hand it out like M&Ms. Hey kids, it's time for Valtrex!' It's like a herpes nest. They're all in there mixing it up.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.