the only mortal sin is giving up.

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.

To change the world, the best thing that you can do is to accept changes with love.

Memories drifting and piling up quietly, like letters on the doormat of an empty house.

Problems don’t get fixed by ignoring them. Putting them off ultimately does more harm than good – all it does is waste time and burden us with stress.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you! — Russ Cargill

What’s going on?” he demanded. “The usual, old man,” I replied cheerily. “Danger, insane plans... you know, the stuff that runs in our family.

That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.