Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.

Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

Embrace the struggle and let it make you stronger. It won't last forever.

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.