I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

Learning makes us all uncomfortable.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.

All we can do about bullies is wish them happiness & celebrate our own.

I like actors who are themselves. I know in America you like actors who change their nose or wear a lot of wigs, and they like to take pretty girls and make them super ugly.

I can be mean. Not dirty. But very mean.

Don't let your heart get broken by this world.

I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.

Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.