In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

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.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Hidden by diaphanous clouds of mist and fog floating gracefully over vales of heather and flowing runnels, she began to dance.

The things you are afraid of

I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation.

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.

If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.

Everything we see is but a mirror of what we are.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

I'd have to say Sunset Salsa. Nothing against Honey Lime, but it's for losers.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.