You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

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.

Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.

Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!

Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.