You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaughterhouse.

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.

The first step is the best step in a journey towards a destination.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

Fashion advice from the Tooth Fairy, that's great.

I guess with myself, I was probably the first woman to lift weights and do circuit training and to run the sand hills.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.