When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.

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.

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Sometimes it is difficult to remember, but other times it is very easy to remember. Sleep deprivation is the killer.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.

It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.

I am rather discreet and shy!