In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

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.

It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

Spread love not hate, so that we can live and die in peace.

Pray for guidance and follow your intuition.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Robbing someone of their smile and putting it on your own face doesn't make you happy.

I think any stereotyping is too much.