If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

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.

And she says, “Then let’s just take the effing road and get ourselves to Hav

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.

The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul

My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'

Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

I'll take any vampire fans I can get. Dracula isn't a serial killer story.

I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.