I do not think it is appropriate for teenage boys and girls to share the same bathroom.

The United States Constitution grants education decision authority to the states and localities not to the president of the United States.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

Sometimes people think the old days were better than today. Even though life was simpler and slower, it was not necessarily easier.

I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.