Creativity is like chasing chickens.

Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

In order to have creativity, you have to allow for dead ends to happen.

we get brave.we move.we believe.we keep going.

Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.

Eternity is pure and knows to give you what you desire … You have to be clear what you ask for, or else you’ll get what you deserve.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.

As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem.

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.