I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the performance, they all become entwined in the theatrics of it all.

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

I'm so proud to have work in this movie, "Brokeback Mountain," a movie that once again shows us that love is what makes us all very similar in spite that we can be so different, too.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.