If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.

Men leave women for other women. Women leave men for another way of life.

A clever trick does not a concept make.

For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

Our best today; better tomorrow.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

He's confident. He knows what he's good at and he has people around him to help him. (on Freddy Adu)

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.

Fields' reply: He'd think I was a sissy.