Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.

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.

Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.

All art is an expression and extension of ourselves.. Art finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences

Witnessing the pain of others is the very least you can do in this world. Its how you know that when your own turn comes, someone will be there with you.

It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.