Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

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 world truly is my oyster, the difficulty is... I haven't discovered the ALL of the tools to shuck it yet.

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.

I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

The great thing about getting older is living life.

There's no point whining about missed opportunities.

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me.