Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

It's good to be unexpected with it.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, "Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 p.m.?" So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.

Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.

We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.

My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears.

To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

Your future is co-created out of what you do today. Do you act from fear or faith? You get to choose.

Let's cool it, brothers.

We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.

Look inside your soul and find your tools. We all have tools and have to live with the help of them. I have two tools—my words and my images.

Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.