Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

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.

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

The monster was still submerged deep inside of me.

Marketing effectively, in a semantic web, revolves around those three ‘little’ requirements: Trust, Authority, Reputation.

Every collaboration helps you grow.

The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.

You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat.

Repetition is the key to real learning.

I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture.

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.

When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.