Showrunning is a thing where you have to work with tons of different people. You have to schmooze people, you have to talk to network people. I don't want to do any of that.

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.

We are not just the leaders of tomorrow. Leadership is not a destination, leadership is a lifetime journey

She wasn’t religious. She didn’t believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables which rapped and little inept voices speaking plaintively of flowers

Nothing goes with you except the love that you gave away.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here, " as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.