Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

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.

Only the winner and coward may survive.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.

Don’t get me wrong. Government Contracting is difficult, but the help you give the government makes our country strong.

I don't spend much money on clothes I never did.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.

We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.

Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner. Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater. Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure. Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)