May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

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 wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

Time is a kindly god.

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

Alex McLeish has just had his hands in his head

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

I've never particularly liked bankers.

Chazz Palminteri is just the ultimate screen husband.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.