Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

The assumption of ‘rights’ is the cancer of privilege.

People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies. Guess love makes you do funny things.

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

It takes leadership to improve safety.

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful.

I dont believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.