I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

Some way some how i'm going to be happy i'm going to laugh i'm going to prosper, i feel good that i remain positive thru these mess up times!!!

deprived of magic, wonder wanes

No no no no no. RIP Phillip Hughes.

[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

I brake for brunettes.

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.