There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.

Being you is the only thing worth spotlighting..

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell..

I want to be just a musician and songwriter, and hopefully known as a very good one. I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also l….

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and pro….

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life..

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something..

Writers will be judged by what they write..

Some write that I'm a genius, others say that I'm disrespectful towards their country... If you remember in 1993 I squatted to tie my shoe during the….

Some early writing say that when people kiss, they exchange the soul, that it's between their mouths and tongues that the soul is exchanged. And so t….

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other..

I really don't like take-out..

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own..

If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about music. I'm not sure why that is….

Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?.

All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed….

Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of….

I write my music with the idea that it will appeal to all of those people, and I want them to go in with all the history that's within all of us - al….

How does a weaker minority dominate a physically superior majority? In my research I learned that this is accomplished by destroying the slave’s mind….

I don't think writing stops until the film is out. In the edit, it's another draft. [The script] is the food for set, and then the set is food for th….

I’ve taken on some of the emotional weight of the stories I’ve worked on. I was writing about a very difficult time in the life of one of my clients ….