Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because what I was teaching I probably couldn't do.

Where in the self-help section of Barnes and Noble does one find a guide on dealing with a supernatural stalker?

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.

Gratitude makes you a better, stronger, wiser person. Ingratitude makes you a negative, angry, miserable person. Which person do you choose to be?

Any church that emphasizes on miracles is simply telling His members that they don’t need to qualify but depend on the supernatural power.

Many great opportunities are not cheap

If you have the right mind, your body can do anything.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Smell is a fallen angel.

Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.