Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

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.

An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps

You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

I think if you have someone to love and someone who loves you, that's the greatest beauty secret.