As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

Hobbies are like flowers on plant. They make the plant look beautiful and feel Proud.

Happiness often relies on one character trait: self-discipline.

The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

I don't like losing at anything. Why should I?

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.

Just curious how much I'm going for these days," Leo said. "I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe...but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.