When in doubt, scribble.

Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.

The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world.

Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.