If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years.

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

Do you really want to put a woman into the White House who supports the greatest assault on women of all? And that is murdering them in the womb before they have a chance to be born.