No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

I could have coached better.

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

When you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him could sail away like two birds.

I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.