This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.