God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

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.

We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.

It’s not about how much pressure you put on, it’s how good you are at taking it off.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

I haven't forgotten where I came from.

Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world.

I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.