If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

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 secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and to have the two as close together as possible.

There are as many paths to Truth as there are souls of men.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?

I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.

I hate London when it's not raining.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.

He gets through too late who goes too fast.

My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.