Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.

When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

A Halloween flower, if ever there was one, would smell like an onion, have thorns like a rose.With charcoal black petalsand vines that entangle, t'would grow under moonlightin mud, I suppose.

How well it was said, " answered the fisherman, "that swords can be kept off with shields but the Eye of Wisdom pierces through every defense!

When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

I like to download as many apps as I can - especially the ones with games and gadgets.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.