Your hair is winter fire, January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT

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.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

The promises of God are equal to current coin. Therefore, I must act on the promises as I would if I actually had the cash.

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.