Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Every work begins with a search

You choose who gets your attention, and you don’t have to give it to anyone who makes you feel like crap. Period.

I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. - Liesel Meminger

The secret parts of this city never ceased to amaze me.

There was a young girl named Ratchet.She had skill and no one could match it.She wanted to beMore stylish and carefree, But she couldn't give up her Ratchet.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.