I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

No. They believe we’re dumb animals. And they won’t contradict their bigotry by listening with their own ears.

There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's the only one that's got all the cool attributes.

Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

Machines don't use machines.

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.