We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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.

We need grandchildren here, ” Pete’s mother said to mewhen we visited. “You don’t get married just to eat and fart.

I love you, " he murmurs. "Can you feel that? You. Not some destiny I think I'm called to. You. I'm with you. My strength. My soul. My heart. Feel it.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

I know I am very beautiful.

I don't have a show anymore. I don't have a check coming in every week. This is important to me, I got to score a million tonight or it could all be over.

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

The difference between Martin Sheen and George W. Bush is Martin Sheen is actually convincing when he acts like he's president.

And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.