I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

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 mean real magic of course-- because in a few pages, you'll discover that this is a magical pencil box hat, which is pretty lucky really, because you don't find too many of those nowadays.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Just as you must eat, drink, and breathe to live, you must read the Bible, pray, and be involved in a church to stay spiritually alive and vital. You never will outgrow these things.

I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

India wants to help Nepal build highways (H), information highways (I) and transways - transmission lines (T).

Each brushstroke is a decision.