Mister, we deal in lead.

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.

It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are.

The world and humanity were created by God and are therefore divinely inspired and intrinsically holy.

The telephone was a sign of being rushed.

Muse’s creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.

You have to own your days and name them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.