I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that

[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

I'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get to normal people in the audience.

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I'm still learning to love myself.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.