I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.

If you hate, you lose who you are.

If winter comes can spring be far behind?

In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

I always say, the bigger the hair, the smaller the hips!

There's a shortage in this world of I believe in you. So say love...you never know who might need it.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

If the guardian or the mother Tell the woes of willful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother, You can hang or drown at last.

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.