When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

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.

The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events

Success comes to those who are aware of failure but are success conscious

Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

We are all dying of life.

In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.