Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'

No matter what it is in life that you want kid, just want it worse than anybody else [and] work harder than anybody else to get there.

One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.

I want to be able to touch every part of our community with poetry.

My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way he can scramble and throw on the run. He can do it all. He can control a game.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.