Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.

The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.

Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.

There isn't a mayor in the world or a president in the world that can stop homicides.

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.

Let's build a battery plant here.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

Equipment makes my job easier, but it doesn't affect my style.

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

Sometimes we gotta lose it to find it

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.