In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

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.

The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

You know, one day you make putts and the next day you don't.

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.