I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.

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.

I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge.

Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

I don't believe a religion affords any protection if they are connected to any kind of terror.

Eating and exercising should be conscious decisions.

I'm cancer-free right now. That's it.

Don't let something you don't fully understand unravel everything you do know.

What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?

In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.