Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets." Begin again.

Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain

I'm just vibrant. I try to bring that to everything I do.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.

He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

I lean toward a flat tax. But I want to make it real flat, like ZERO.

I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.