The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

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.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Every exceptional bias against Christianity I find to be evidence for its validity.

He cupped her head with both hands. “You’re full of your own kind of magic, and it’s much more rare and beautiful than all the other spells around you. They are commonplace. You are unique.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

A Jew describes another Jew simply as a human being; a Gentile describes him, first and foremost, as a Jew.

It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.

There is always going to be a reason why you can't do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.

I never thought anything about age. I believed sincerely and still do, that there’s nothing I cannot do. I believe that all the power in the universe is right inside me.