When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.

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've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.

things keep falling in and out of place. this is the universe's way of taking care of me.

Seriously, why was it tradition to stand when the bride came in? It blocked her from seeing her groom, who was the only reason she was there in the first place.

One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.

Diligent accumulation of personal wealth is not inherently ungodly so long as it is complemented by equally diligent distribution of personal wealth.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.