There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

Predisposition is not predestination.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord and let your service be according to reason.

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.

What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.