...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

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.

All great art is a form of complaint

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.

Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.

It is clear that there would nothing a U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Syria because Syria is Russia's ally, and Russia has a veto in the U.N. Security Council.

LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.

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