Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody's.

Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.

For now, I will say that God endowed humans with a great many powers and forces, and some of the creative, constructive powers can only be passed on through channels of others.”The Guardian

I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

I have nothing to do with Putin. I've never spoken to him. I don't know anything about him other than he will respect me.

I was a hired gun, more or less.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.