The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

If you only have one world, one life, then however brilliant it is most of the time, you have nowhere to run when you need to escape from it for a while.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.