Nobody likes a clown at midnight

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 have learned that if you have something to say, say it regardless, no matter what the outcome is, it will serve you, eventually.

Honourable is right.

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

Then HBO was the pie in the sky. HBO is the absolute ultimate.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

'Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord' means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?