We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

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.

open science is returning science to its true essence

Fashion is an art.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

Recommend me to the Lord and to the Virgin Mother because I am in extreme need of their help.

My job as a parent is a temporary responsibility with eternal consequences.