That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

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.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

I just don't think there's a lot of support for the woman's voice in cinema, and it becomes really difficult to raise that money and start again every time.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.