God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

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 end the relationship when emotionally charged.

Love is a fearless force.

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

Design the life that you want to live.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.

We see the world through our experience.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.