I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.

Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.

I am he As you are me And we are all together.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.

The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.