Adults are the real monsters.

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.

If you dump the fear of failure, you will eventually marry success.

I've learned that the most depressed people always seem to be the happiest

I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.

Communication is like the basics of mechanical engineering, the more moving parts you have the more likely it is to break down!

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

When people are worried about the future, they don't take trips to Hawaii.

I know you are, but you gotta push

You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.