I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

A revolution is taking place within her, as though a lifetime's experience could be outdistanced in the span of a conversation.

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed

I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling.

Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude

I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. American Family was the first thing I did in English.

Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God."

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.