I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

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.

You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things. It is the vulgar who note their resemblance.

While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.

Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.

I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. You get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.