I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

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.

What is a Man without his heroic deeds?

You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words.

The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.

Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.

The young will not always be young, the famous will not always be relevant, the outspoken will not always have a voice. Make the most of now.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

I think it's a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.