I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).

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.

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling.""I didn't mean no harm, " I said and kissed her. "That a new dress?""Ah! Changing the subject, you coward.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.

Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.