the look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek.

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.

It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last.

It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.