When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

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.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing

I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.

Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .

I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there.

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.