Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns.

We must conquer every mountain to fulfill the dream.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights

Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

Time's ruins build eternity's mansions.

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.