I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

I kind of forgot about the inner child in me that loved the old horror movies.