I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it), ...

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.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

To work around and be successful in a round configuration in the theater, you have to connect with everyone.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important.