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.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.