There’s always someone who knows something.

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.

There are no moral obligations in the game of empire.

Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.

Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are.

Don't try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.