A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Love is magic in its rawest form.

Attend to your Configuration.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.