...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

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.

Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

Lying is the new truth.

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.

If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.

With girls, I don't think right. I had a date with one girl, she had mirrors all over her bedroom. She told me to come over and bring a bottle. I got Windex.

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.