Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.

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.

Knowledge is abundant, but wisdom is rare.

I made no secret of the fact I'd love to stay in football and to do that, you need badges. I'm starting them and that's the next step for me - to continue this next season.

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.