There are no roadblocks, only springboards.

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.

You've got two choices: you could either complain about it, or use it as fuel to make you a better person.

The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.

We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

I give the truths of to-morrow.""I prefer the mistakes of today.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

No One Diets on Thanksgiving.

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

Wearing a real corset doesn't make you look thin! It just makes you look like you're going to pass out! Also it doesn't actually shape your body in any positive way.