To the champ, everything is serious business. I'm hoping that he'll live long enough to learn that in this world that is a very dangerous attitude.

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.

Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.

Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape.