Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

It's love that makes the world go round - otherwise it would be flat.

Moon is the light from a lantern in heaven

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

I don't see what could be better to play a game and get paid for it.

The root cause of terrorism is terrorists.

I just think the older I get, actually, the better I feel.