Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

DNA has memory!

sometimes what you have planned, is nothing like the plan your soul invited you, to this earth for.

And they all lived happily ever after, until they died.

There is only one large circle that we march in around and around each of us with our own little picture-in front of us-our own little mirage that we think is the future.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really

Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.