The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

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.

Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray.And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?

Only fools neglect the living God – the Human Self, while running after imaginary shadows.

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

Every year there's a jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Getting on the jury is very competitive in France. Not because the French love cinema, but because they love to judge.

I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller.

All knowledge is but remembrance.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

Never make excuses for someone who disrespects you-who they are or what they do isn't a pass to treat you like trash!