The more I drink the better I write and the more I write the better I drink.

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

I know I'm a champion. I know I've got it in me, they can't stop me.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

Don't let negativity affect your vision. People say harsh things, but don't let them affect you.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll sort of be the end.