No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

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.

Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware.

The middle [those rough patches that come before the completion of our milestones] is only a temporal place, never settle there or cut corners to get out!

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

We thought New York City was home to 8 million rats. Turns out, that's a little high. The actual number is 2 million rats. That explains the light turnout for the midterm elections.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

Always look forward. Follow the path of light

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

Terrorism brings the reprisal; the reprisal brings the additional hatred; the additional hatred breeds the additional terrorism, and so on.