I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot.

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.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

Credit is an 'I love debt' score.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.