The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

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 word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I'm fast for a heavyweight.

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

Love is the outlaw's duty.

No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story.

Cruise the diamond district with my biscuit.

Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.