If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

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.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.

My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

We are not far away from the point of no return when it comes to life on earth, and we have some radical choices to make.

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.