Writing is seduction.

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.

Forget the secrets of success, use Cosmic Ordering instead.

That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.The girls of 1929.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.