time made me stronger, you're no longer on my mind

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

I'm just somebody who tries to write things that entertain people. And if I can do it in a way that makes them prefer to emulate the good guy than the bad guy, I'm happy.

Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.