All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Success will bring recognition, money and all other pleasures of life

Discernment is trust put into practice.

I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age.

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. [The little cannot be great unless he devour many.]

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him.

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.