For me, the slower burn is a deeper and more effective scare. But I only like those kinds of scares when they're really earned. I don't like false scares.

And when his head slumped forward into his book, she giggled, for she knew that he was hers.

It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.

The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

The greatest joy is to be a mirror of God’s love

Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.

The high road is littered with pot shots.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours.

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.