I write to find out what I think.

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.

Don’t be such a dumbass, Gabe. Koalas don’t travel in herds. They move in heaps. Much like emus move in ripples, and kangaroos travel in photo-ops.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

I was going to get my teeth whitened, but I said, "I'll just get a tan instead."

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.