Like most so-called debates between liberals and conservatives, they weren’t interested in listening or responding to each other. They were solely concerned with making sound bites.

A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? If I'm a game show host, will I get an offer to do a dramatic role in a movie?

I think you're put here on earth to enjoy yourself. And I'm doing that.

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

Talk is cheap, let's go play.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.

I'm not comfortable being that outgoing guy. That's not me. I never used to talk to anybody.