Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

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.

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.