We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.

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.

Achieving your goal should always be of secondary importance. Your focus should be on becoming the kind of person deserving of the goal.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

I am the animal at the head of the pack. … I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

Dirty energy is a finite resource; the more of it we use, the scarcer it becomes.

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.