The State that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

I mean if there was any justice in the world you wouldn't even have to go to school during your period. You'd just stay home for five days and eat chocolate and cry.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.

I'll work for whoever wants to hire me. Even the jewelry channel.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

As long as it's a world, it has laws. Why, I don't know, it's just the way it is. In Nirvana, there are no laws.

15 concubines ain't nothin' to sneeze at.

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.