An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

The human digestive tract is like the Amtrak line from Seattle to Los Angeles: transit time is about thirty hours, and the scenery on the last leg is pretty monotonous.

Geothermal energy should be a priority in a ever increasing warmer planet. It is kind of like cooking a chicken from the outside. Eventually, the underlying parts get well done.

If you purchased the latest Joss Stone CD, what you're saying is that you're an employee of VH1.

The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.

I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.

It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.

Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don’t watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock lash itself in shame.

If you want to predict the future of our land, go to school and look around.

I think it mostly comes down to trying to align with people who are down with a mission and will bring optimism.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.