The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Where are we?" "In a special place, " he whispered, dragging his lips across her ear, "where magic is real.

Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.

This is my question for conservatives: don't you want to live, too?

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?

Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes.

A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.