Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter, --making us think of funnier and funnier things.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review a collection of songs and sketches preferably with a satirical bias.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it.

Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.