In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Faith, Hope, Trust, Belief are all the same consequences of Doubt.

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

I'm always impressed with the way the writers find new and creative ways of killing people. But my favourite has to be the hat pin through the ear.

Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.