Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.

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.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

Without struggles, success would be meaningless.

I’m glad we can be friends.”There’s that word again. It’s like a safe word.

No one will want a piece of us in 2009.

To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.