There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing.

I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me.

I think I’d rather be branded than submit to some of the things that you have to.” He said this without spite, just a soft statement of fact. “I’m not strong enough to do that.

When he shut himself in his apartment he found that he hoped he was waiting for nothing at all.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting.

Dad!" he shouted, loud enough to make my ears ring. "Dad! You need to get down here!" (Derek) Chloe held open the door and whispered to me, "I could say he's not always like this, but I'd be lying.

You can never take the violence back.

Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.