Being a writer means you get to live vicariously through your characters

Sometimes we allow pride to keep us running after a man who doesn’t want to be captured.

In choosing consciousness, we gift ourselves with presence.

Only the fear of God, can deliver us from evil.

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.

I didn't want to play by what rules are in Hollywood.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Our first priority is our kids.

In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.

The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania