For every dilemma, find at least three or four possible solutions. The creative process leads to better results.

Even your most loyal customers always have a choice about where to take their business.

Life should be dealt with in small bites, large gulps will choke you.

One must be cold if one wishes to savor chaos.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

No one's on at my time but infomercials.

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.