I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.

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.

Where there is no integrity, there is no unity.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.

I've never, ever had any therapy. Some might say I need it, but I've never seen a shrink or a psychologist or anything like that.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.