I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

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.

Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

I am afraid of darkness... even though it knows me it loves me.

It's not that he hated the wooden cube. It's what was inside it that he didn't like.

From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

Friends are not made, but recognized.

I want us to be as good as we say we are and as others think we should be.

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things.