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

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've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.

Because otherwise you would have to let them in, let them change your life, and it’s scary and unpredictable and unsafe – at least, that’s what we all think.

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

Every decoding is another encoding.

Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.

Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.

Two weeks together, that’s all it took, two weeks for me to fall in love with you. ♥

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.