We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

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.

Life is pure loving intelligence. There are no mistakes.

The hardest thing to do in this world is to have a steadfast mind & will to be who God called you to be.

Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.