What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.

Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.

A man came to Budha and said, "I want happiness". Budha replied" Remove 'I", its your ego, Remove "want" its you source of misery, Now you are left with "happiness".

Confused? Confusion is good. It’s an excellent place to learn something new from.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.

For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?

I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead.