It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

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 trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women,

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.

You heard of hell, well I was sent from it.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free.

If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.