Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.

...this is life. Right here in this room, with you, is life.

Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important.

The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.

The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.