If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

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.

that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.

Some say the ocean roars, I hear it ever weeping.Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before.Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.