Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?

If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.

And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.

You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it.

I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting.

[Donald Trump] has confidence in Director [James] Comey. We have had a great relationship with him over the last several weeks. He's extremely competent.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.