You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

Shrews are made, not born.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

The future is bright like a shining diamond.

You don't know now and after and before who has watched you and who is watching you and who will continue doing that.

Brands are all about trust. That trust is built in drops and lost in buckets.

If I think she' hot and it turns out she's a psychopath, then what does that say about me? I'm totally not ready for that kind of therapy.

When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

There are worlds beyond anything you can imagine; there are joys beyond anything you have experienced. There are ecstasies that are undreamed of, I assure you.

That is a debatable point, whether South Africans are xenophobic. I don't you'd have the numbers that you have of foreigners if South Africa was xenophobic.

Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.