(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Every great work every big accomplishment has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement.

I don't care what the American people think, I own the congress!

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

I don't need some jerk like Romney, Santorum, Obama, Bush, Clinton or the rest of them telling me that they're my leaders. They couldn't lead me across the street.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.