The mystery of the universe is not time but size.

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.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

I know that I know nothing

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.

I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.