This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

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.

I was lifted from the darkness I endured into the person I am today.

Maurice has been a revelation, on and off the field.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?