I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

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.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

To begin, begin.

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else

God doesn’t work on sense; He works on grace. God called you, and God called me. He knew what He was doing.

Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'