Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to.

Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.

A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Journalists are divided into two groups: those who live by ethics, and those who don't.

I had this movie, Death Race, that was a passion project for me that I'd had in development for almost ten years.

There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth.

I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.