If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

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.

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.

Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that

To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.

I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.