Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

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.

With the spirit of endurance, we shall strive in any situation.

maybe someday, you will look back and smile because it was all worth it

...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation

To make headway, improve your head.

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.