Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

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.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

Sometimes a story idea will come to me, and suddenly I've figured out the whole thing, and I feel like I'm collaborating with something other than myself.

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.