Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

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 said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.

You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

Life is a creation, not a discovery.

Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders—in that order.