Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

Everything...affects everything

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

In the end....everything matters.

If you desire a joyful heart, dance daily.

Be sure your sin will find you out...Be sure.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed.

What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

The future did not arrive.

An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.

In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.