Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

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.

We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts disappearing.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

You can't shrink your way to greatness!

Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.