Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

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.

Attachment to the hurt is the root of all suffering.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

Bought the president the Louis presidential briefcase Never been a cheapskate

Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.