Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

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.

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?

Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.

Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.

I was always busy doing something, being an only child.

When George Bush finally leaves the White House, the satire industry will briefly join the rest of the economy in recession. It will certainly be the end of an era.