I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

Be careful of what you assume, what you assume will become what you consume

She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.

The greatest dishes are very simple.

The hand that punched is the hands that gives compassion

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

Every life has a soundtrack.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

Why would we expect the French to fight to liberate the Iraqis when they wouldn't fight to liberate themselves?

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done the hard part - made up a story, provided the characters.

When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.