It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

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.

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.

whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.