I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

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.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

The world changes when there's music in it.

The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.

A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.