Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!

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.

Age is just reality we create for ourselves.

When you are in a dark place, you tend to sit back and wait for the light to come. But it won't: because, you are the only one who can find your inner light.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

My first show, in England, was called Soldier, Soldier.

Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies