Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.

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.

She reminded me that I could write stories, /could be struck by lightning & live.

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

For the people whose minds are in the past, even a heavy rain cannot bring them to the present time!

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work. It's just how do you get it seen?

The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.