Tony, Tony, come around, something's lost that can't be found.

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 thought... that we could at least talk about books.

If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.

The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.

We spend most of our lives doing nothing but waiting. Waiting things that always change.

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

A smoky eye and nice hair are not going to make my night any easier.

I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

A way of spreading the dharma is just telling people, sharing with them your experiences. Never push it, never be a missionary. Be completely selfless; realize you're only an instrument of eternity.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.