Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

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.

What you believe determines the way you feel and act... but it doesn't change the truth.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.

Tears are the messengers of true love.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

It's so easy to lie. What’s even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don’t have to face the truth, don’t have to feel alone.

To study history is to study literature.

Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"