Don't be embarrassed of who you are, they're gonna judge you no matter what you do.

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

When youre the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.

You gotta think positive, you know. Make the obstacles opportunities. Thats my philosophy.

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

It's a wonderful time when you sit down around the table for dinner and discuss life. No matter where you are, it gives the semblance of normalcy to my crazy world.

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

If I believed in hell, I'd definitely be going there.

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

My will can control anything that’s empty.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.