If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.

Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.

Technology doesn’t change people’s basic needs or their natures.

I will never know you well enough. I will always want more.

Whenever I have nothing better to do, I roast a chicken.

When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write.

I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

I need very little reality.

It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.

Don't try to be all things to all people. Concentrate on selling something unique that you know there is a need for, offer competitive pricing and good customer service.

I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.

If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!