Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.

I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

I have really enjoyed my time at Ferrari, not just because of the successes.