Business success contains the seeds of its destruction.

Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your buisness.

Don't differentiate without a difference.

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It's not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters...you have to feel what they feel.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.

Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?

The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.

Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

I definitely have family on the brain.

I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy."

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.