I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

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.

Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it’s the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.

We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.

When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain a "there" that will look better to you than your present "here."

Don't preach about meditation.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .