Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

The process of creation begins way before one starts writing.

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.

Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.

If it is impossible let's do it because nothing is impossible, if you set your mind to it.

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

There is a lot more to me than just walking guys down. I have speed, I have power, I have a crazy uppercut, I can move to the side. There are a lot of ways I can get it done.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

I would love to meet with the Black Caucus, it's great, the Congressional Black Caucus, I think it's great.

A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.