Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

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.

Once upon a timeI fell in loveLost myselfAnd find another one.

Just because I have shoes on is no sign that I am walking.

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

Anything can happen and it probably will.

I don't regret anything.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.