Normal is the average of deviance.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

Some pain has no relief, it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed.

They say an old man is twice a child

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.

We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.