I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.

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.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order that they have been written.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

abundance is in crucial ways a state of mind.