All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents.

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

When I started performing I was like, "Holy hell, how am I going to survive this?" I was giving it my all in 15 minutes but now I had to do it for two hours.

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.