You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

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 got some good news earlier today before the show. Thanks to Alex Rodriguez, I am no longer the most overpaid disappointment in New York City.

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

I vote for whoever will annoy my dad.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

Find out what works, and do more of that.

That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.