The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

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.

Happiness changes the way you see the world.

Love is the light and source of life, and happiness is the delight and essence of life.

The ocean will always betray me. No matter how beautiful it is.

There is no armour against fate death lays his icy hands on kings.

My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

No one dressed by me ever looks like an idiot.