When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

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.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

We are pagans. We deify each other.

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.

People give up the earth for beauty.

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.