Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

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.

It’s hard to tell sometimes if Etheny’s stories are true, as you will see, so I will lay down the story as she told it to me to allow you to decide for yourself.

There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.

She smashes her knuckles into winterAs autumn's wind fades into blackShe is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks...(iViva la Gloria!)

I have a great family that loves me, a record deal at 14, and I get to do what I love every day.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.