How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

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.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

By and large my relations with the US were good.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

And I make no apology for linking my thinking with computer technology.

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.