The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

The writer is the person who stays in the room.

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.

We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

Autism; It's not new just because you haven't heard of it until now.

Who says i can't handle it? I can handle it," said Gregor obviously not handling it.

Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

You can't change your game based on where you're playing.