If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

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.

Infectious smile has infected tears The laughter strikes with spears I am not dear and they are not sincere Feeling fear I must perform For when I stop the stage is gone

I don’t know what else to say.""There is nothing else to say. A few minutes of words can’t change years of absurdity.

Everybody! This is my cousin right here, and he just dethroned God's gift to Women - Griffin

The U.S. Open is the only place in America where you can't trade in your Mercedes-Benz for a hamburger.

My greatest joy comes from teaching.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

Well, well, well," I said. "If it isn't the people responsible for unleashing Rose Hathaway on the world. You've got a lot to answer for.

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius