Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

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.

The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

There is no beginning that is a blank page.

Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.

Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.