I'm paid to be lucky and that means making your own luck - getting yourself in the right position, in front of the right subject at the right time, and in the right light.

In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.