Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.

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.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

Change is not made without inconvenience even from worse to better.

To make no mistake is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!