You cannot write well without data.

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.

Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.

The person I am today would like to thank the person I was 5 years ago for not giving up. You're awesome!

Life moves very fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Christ needs people today who are made of martyr stuff! Dare to take a strong, uncompromised stand for Him.

The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn’t really there. And the definition of a theologian is he’s somebody who finds it.

It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.

Venezuela has changed forever, there is no turning back.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.