Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed

Marriage is not a reform school . . .Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.

This was my love, her love --torn, damaged, broken, ripped apart and put back together. This was our tattered love.

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.

I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.