Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

Feed your self-esteem

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

My mum always said things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end. If not always in the ways we expect". -Luna lovegood( Harry potter and the order of the phenoix)

I've always been under the radar.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

If my friends are going to the mountains with guns to fight, I will continue that fight, not with guns but with a camera.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.