And the sun and the moon sometimes argue over who will tuck me in at night. If you think I am having more fun than anyone on this planet, you are absolutely correct.

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

I do not know your situation. But I know the easy answer is almost always the wrong one. Search your heart. Where is your fear driving you?

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly. Mom! What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Backing down can become a way of life.

San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.