If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

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.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

What I would say to the establishment is that there is far more discontent among the American people than they believe.

Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.

As we have 250,000 Syrians murdered, slaughtered; millions running around the world, running for their lives. It's not working. We need to try something else. And that is not reckless.

He's an old good fighter, he's an intelligent fighter but I wouldn't say he's the best I've ever fought.

Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless.

Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community.

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.