Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

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.

We are brothers and sisters. We are one sacred family.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.

If you want to be in network marketing, you have to be extremely literate online.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

All will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

So you're mother? Nice to put a name to a face.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.