I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Watch out for what people commend you for and do it diligently. Don’t stop if compliments no longer come.

In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.

President Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

Sometimes we carry mistakes we haven't even made yet.

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.