Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

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.

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.

So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather frominside out.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.