You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

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.

A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.

When it comes to cats and the people who love them, Des is respectful of the bond, even when it reaches a level most would call obsession.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

Wow, you're never allowed to sleep late again. You're crankier than a fat guy in stilettos.

No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.

I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.