For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

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.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back.

I want to do whatever I possibly can to be as good as I can be.

I want to build a positive image that will last my career.

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.