Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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.

Never pray to be a better slave when God is trying to get you out of your situation.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

[Amy Sedaris] probably can't sit still, that type of thing. She's a force to be reckoned with.

We certainly do not regard it as right that the citizens of a large country should dominate those of a small adjoining country merely because they are more numerous.

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

If I get to know somebody, I'll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.