I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

[A] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.

If your words do not have a smile, if you do not talk heart to heart, and you decide everything with your head, it is better to keep a dog as a friend rather than you.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

If you understand what the other team is trying to do to stop you, it makes your job easier.

You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.

So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.

Today is the first and last day of forever.

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.