Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.

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.

There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.