we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

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.

Anguish is the universal language

You don't have to be better than everyone in order to grow and achieve success, but you must continuously strive to become better than the person you were yesterday.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

I am the Mud Hut I Grew Upon

Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.

Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.