When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.

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 world will lose something if you do not find yourself, if you do not answer the question “Who am I

Trust is built and maintained by many small actions over time.

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.

However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?