I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

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.

Be first the master of yourself

When you love yourself endlessly, you will find that the whole world loves you too.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

For me, I'm able to use my gift to glorify God. That's what it's about for me.

Good managers have a bias for action.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.