Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

The Gospel of God is glad tidings of good things.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.

Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.

I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.

I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.

But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.