The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

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.

War never leaves where it found a nation.

We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

It's not my business to raise anybody else's kids. Mom and Dad got to do all that.

The word trill really REALLY bugs me! Like who made that up???

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.

I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.