Life is a means of extracting fiction.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

It's all about letting the story take over.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

One does not consider style, because style is.

Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.

Negative feedback may be fun, but it is far less brave than endorsing something unproven and providing room to grow.

My love...you were insolent to a dragon? Please tell me that I misheard you just now.

The great question which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul is "what does a woman want"?

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.