When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

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.

To garner the courage to go on creating oneself endlessly is a token of maturity. Create yourself. Create your day.

Merdeka!' the Malay man screamed.'Merdekaaaaaa!' the sea of people echoed.

Sometimes being poor means having to choose between your principles and your survival.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what I would like to do if I was able to do so.

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!