If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.

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.

Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

It might just be me, but it's tough when you get drivers that don't stay where they should be.

Paris Hilton said something interesting to me once: she said, 'I just tell everyone what they want to hear, and I do what I want to do.'