...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

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.

You may slowdown, but time will not wait for you.

With enough coffee anything is possible

Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.

I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.