Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

Style is important, but content comes first.

Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Most people are boring and stupid.

Only pain can define the meaning of tears.

I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.

Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are.

Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I want to make another film. I want to make a better film about the legendary Babaji, with more close-encounter stories of people who have been with him.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.