A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

I make time for joy every day.

Have nuts and be nuts.

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

Fetty Wap is just a face. It's just a name and face.

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

[If President Bush is right about democracy in Iraq] I may, and I don't know if I can physically do this, implode.

The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.

My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

A youth is capable of bringing things together and changing the direction too. They can come together and bring changes. There is no need of breaking anything, but need is to bring changes.

I hear it in the deep heart's core.