It's nice to be nice to the nice.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Doubt is something we all feel, but some people allow theirs to grow stronger than their confidence and faith.

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

Decision-making is lonely.

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.

Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.