It's hard enough to do a good show, but it seems like not enough to want to do that.

I would never want to be a trend-spotter, in any field. I just think I would be bad at it. I have very limited range, in terms of the tone of the show, that I'm capable of making.

You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing in the world. Then character, then story, or something like that.

I tend to think of all new voices as a potential for failure, and all the people I've worked with before as the greatest potential for success.

This is not the story of my marriage. I cannot tell that story: I cannot take hold of, or lay out for anyone, the many swamps and grasses and pockets of fresh air and dank air that have gone over us.

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.

Pay the hired worker his wages before his sweat dries

We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions.

Turn your situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime. – Joyce Meyer

However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

I learned that buying expensive furniture with toddlers around is pointless.