I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

I am young to learn.

We're shadows! of naught - living, dying! for what's not.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

History after all is the true poetry.