I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, whats the point?

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

I really wanted to be a writer.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.", July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

Hush little baby, Dont you cry, Dont cut your arms, Dont say goodbye. Put down that razor, Put down that light, It maybe hard but, You'll win this fight.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

Just because you lose doesn't mean you're a loser, and champions don't quit.

Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.