I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

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.

As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.

Love rarely waits for permission.

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

Energy Medicine is the last great frontier in medicine.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

What's powerful about the mind, the mind comes through every physical and when the physical goes the mind still exists.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.