Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

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.

Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert

Believe in yourself, take a bet on yourself. If you don't, then who will?

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.