Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

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.

We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

Both my parents work in film. They're crew. I love movies, and I just wanted to be involved. I got really lucky. I auditioned for a while and then started making films.

My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.

One must always be prepared to learn something totally new.

What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?!

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.