Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

A well-behaved person is not always well-dressed.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.

Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.

Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.