Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

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.

I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find

Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.

All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

I would want to be fully informed before advising the president.

If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.