Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

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.

Life is all about making choices, as in a game of chess. The moves from other side are predetermined against every move of yours. But with each move, you shift your destiny for better or worse.

I gave them everything I had, and I guess it feelsalright.I gave them my body, and they use it every night.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.

It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.

Everything we'll accomplish, we'll do it together or not at all.