Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.

Nobody can tell your story the way you can tell your story.

I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

Dogs are forever in the push up postion.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.