There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.

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.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need!

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

There's always challenges to everything.

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.