A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

How can you write if you can't cry?

Shut up,' he explained.

How do you look when I'm sober?

Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

God doesn't always bring you the entire truth. He sometimes gives it to you in pieces, in order to learn. Regardless, it is the piece that you got today that will renew your faith for tomorrow.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.

A world without love is a deadly place.

As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.

Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.