It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.

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 am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.

I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

He who best knows the world will love it least.

The girl in me wanted to slap Lung across his face and yell, "Get your eyes off my sticky buns, ya creep!

A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.