Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

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.

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

Stay encouraged and stay motivated! You are greater than you know.

Real problems in life are those related to your wellbeing and the wellbeing of your loved ones... Everything else is NOT a problem!

I just wished they'd see Mari, their daughter. I wished they saw how much I liked art and how much I didn't want to dedicate my life to something I wasn't passionate about.

Boredom is a positive attitude's enemy.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.