Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

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.

To become great you have to be good first, and that only occurs by applying yourself. Commit to your passion and refuse to let yourself down.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

I learned that I was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.' -Nora (PG 263)

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

The first jazz cruise that I was on was '91. I played with Maria Schneider and John Fedchock's band. Got to meet some amazing people that week.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.