The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

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 greatest writers are the ones not afraid to share their heartbreak and pain for the world to read.They are fearless and freely in sharing their heart to heal other wounds with their story.

He narrowed his eyes at me, pushed out of the booth and stomped over to the cash desk where Ash had returned and was playing a game on his mobile

How can people trust social media over newspapers today?

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.