Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

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.

Be patient in life, knowing that there is a real possibility that the desired outcome could happen without your direct involvement.

The future is like a corridor into which we can see only by the light coming from behind.

Appetite is the beast in man, compassion is his spirit.

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

How many have died that I might live?And who has died that I might live?

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Each time that you don't know you are choosing, then of those choices you are not the chooser.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

I sweet potato what I sweet potato.

We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact That we are not fighting back