Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

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.

Compassion Is The Key

I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.