I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

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.

A wise man need only the guidance of his own heart.

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.

It's not a question of who will allow me to do it, it's a question of who will stop me.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion

If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.