... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

Rush Limbaugh is beginning to look more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come.

Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can

It's much too late to save myself from falling.

I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...

The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.

My career could have been prolonged for longer

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won't know each other unless they bring friends along.