Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.

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.

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

How can something as necessary as breathing be immoral?

Taking personal responsibility is not about being "responsible" — it is about seeing your truth and evolving.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

I think Governor Romney cares about all the American people.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.