If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

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.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

I'm sorry, Alabama fans. I'm from New York and didn't watch football growing up.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.