The pen is my true salvation. God is not.

For the sun to shine, you gotta have some rain. You need the damn rain.

I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I don’t have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.

In life, you got two objectives. Make money and make a change.

I'd rather try and fail than quit and not do shit.

All my life I wanted to be accepted.

Those who think life is money, chase it. But those who think life is sharing live to give.

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun