Talent always rises to the top

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

Never let the occasional delays in your life dampen your dreams

I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.

Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.