I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

What makes me feel rich is spending time with my children, knowing we are making beautiful memories together.

Preventing a suicide is not necessarily a beneficent act if it forces the potential suicide to continue in a life of misery.

The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them.

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.

Each bird must sing with his own throat.

It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist.

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment.

One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.