If you think that you are less than them, can you blame them for thinking they are better?

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted more easily, knowing I won't be irrevocably shattered [p. 59]