When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

Love is the most powerful force on earth. The end of fear is where love begins. Then nothing can overcome you.

Hardship is the hardest moment to soften the soul.

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

Michael is Janet and Janet is Michael.

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

They say it’s always darkest until right before the dawn. I’ve worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.

The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy wings and fly."

Media access to us is more regulated than in golf.

Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.

He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.