If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

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.

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

There will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001 - to false comfort in a dangerous world.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it.

An office is a machine for dying.

Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.