What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.

This lost boy got fly without Peter Pan

Most people don't have someone to believe in them.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.