If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

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.

History didn’t always predict the future. You had to live it one day at a time to find out what happened next.

What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?

Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.

Crisis doesn't create character; it reveals it.

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

Disinformation, in order to be effective, must be 90% accurate.

You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house.