Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

I've made mistakes, I clearly did, but what I was hoping for was that some other dumbass would get on the front page and take me off the hook. I miss Lane Kiffin.

Always go as far as you can see, then let faith take you the rest of the way.

The Gnanis [The enlightened ones] have said that if one lives as if he is dead, death will never come to him.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

In the light, he looked like a fallen angel asked to return to Hell.

I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.

There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time often.