The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

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.

Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?

I won't leave you. If you're in danger, then I should be with you. I won't let you risk your life alone. We're in this together, remember? That's what you told me when we ran away.

Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

All things are already complete in oneself.

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

I always thought that the way to believe more deeply was to surround myself with other Christians. After all, isn't that the traditional tool for religious socialization?

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.