Formula: Second Draft = First Draft minus 10%.

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.

Isn't it a shame that some people's 'weaknesses' can be so strong.

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

I don't believe in miracles. I believe in character

My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything

If you think you can - you can ! If you think you can not - you can not ! And either way........you are right !

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.