Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch..

If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next p….

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place..

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box..

It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we comme….

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than an….

One day you'll have a quiet heart..

Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones of dead volc….

But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves in the winter forest will crawl wi….

In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the botto….

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity..

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable..

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at a….

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film.

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to era….

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him..

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death..

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watc….

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence insid….

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We'….

If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next..