Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as you and me. What's with that?

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

Letting go is hard, but always worth your efforts.

I need attention?No...I need victim....!

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us.

Worried about dry skin? Concerned about lines and wrinkles? Then visit a burns unit and get some perspective.

The light of love sees no walls.