My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

The weight of your baggage never stops true love from taking flight.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.

Une danse est un poe' me. A dance is a poem.

The girls show up wearing nothing. I can't lie, I'm 16, I don't hate it. I don't have a girlfriend.

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.

The freedom of poetic license.

Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.

By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.