I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

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.

Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

Self Help: When you really stop and think about it, is there any other kind?

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which has become ever more complex and cumbersome.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

Don't confuse close with happy

They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.