If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

It's good to be unexpected with it.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, "Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 p.m.?" So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.

Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one.

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study

A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.

The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.

Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

There were stars. They burned my eyes.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.