the year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of thin air like the nightmilk of fantasy.

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.

When you have to made a decision, there's no return, keep this in your mind.

There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.

Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

There's no real alternative to what there is.

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.

I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.

Now no one can deny the fact that whatever is the state of the affairs in the country, you did not have the army controlling the country and you have a pluralistic society anyway.

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.