Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

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.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

When giving up is not an option, you survive at any cost.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.

No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.

Those who warned that Gorbachev was being put under too much pressure were wrong.

Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.