Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

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 digged my heart deeper to see who is inside, the more i digged, the more i lost ME

If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.