When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions.

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.

My mind is like a seaYou will only drown, If you think you can swimThere are things that devours me, No love can ever save me.

On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third best horse and win.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, it never really worked to think something like, "What Beatle did she like in high school?" or those kinds of elaborate backstories.

What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.