Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot..

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past..

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven..

The brain may take advice, but not the heart..

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing..

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor..

If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?.

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky,….

You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. Y….

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet..

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down ou….

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though so….

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true..

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act..

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation..

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies..

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say..

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent..

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year..

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make..