I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

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 great achievements arrive much later than we expect, but they arrive, and they are great.

Family is the garden of humanity where every flower grows with love and kindness, in search of beauty, purpose and happiness.

I don't have wings, but I believe I can fly and touch the sky.

And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

I am not a philosopher.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.

Choices can be made again." -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)

It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.