It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

We choose to do things that make us Cry. We don't know Why? We blame the Sky. We do not Try. Oh My! What a way to Die!!!

Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.

Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.