I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

There are as many life missions as there are people. We are all unique. We are all important.

Free will always results in collateral damage.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

All you have to do is trust your Heavenly Father. Trust Him enough to follow His plan.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

THANKS: Be Grateful for what God has given you GIVING: Be Faithful with what God has given you.

I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

I didn't want to be in a Pepsi commercial with R2-D2 sitting on my shoulder.

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.