Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.

Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

No one has ever thought this: Now that I'm out of therapy and have fixed my mental problems, I think I want to be a ventriloquist.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

For the last five, 10 years, you're seeing the best things happen on television.

Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.