I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

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 full radiance of light is love.

Growth can't be constrained when the journey unfolds naturally and we are open to possibility and unfamiliar paths.

The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on.

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.

Each day is a day that God has given us, and each moment of that day is in His hands.