It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.

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.

How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.

It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.

Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.