I feel your pain. My vibrator needed batteries.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

There may be some tough times here in America. But this country has gone through tough times before, and we're going to do it again.

Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.