Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning.

Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.

Eleanor hated it when her mom acted like that. Relentlessly submissive. It was humiliatng to be in the same room.

Energy even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed will move mountains.

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.

I certainly don't see myself as Caligula.

Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.