Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.

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.

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

Is life a fantasy or fairy tales?

One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future.

I like it that we all get to choose differently.

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.

Until you can let go of everything, you will find it hard to hold onto anything.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.