Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

Truth, honesty, perseverance, strength, love of all kinds and forgiveness are all beautiful, Tack. The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take.

That’s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.

You got one life, never use it just to breathe.

It's never too late to reach for happiness and no matter what life has done to you, it's never too late to find it.

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

Thank you for keeping it a secret. There aren't many of those in this tribe.

We're all lost. The best chance we got is to wander this life with the people who matter.

I'm not going to work in a place where I can't eat donuts.

Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.

Seriously, I don’t care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I’d follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.

The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.

When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is.