Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.

You can do it alone. But it's going to be so much harder.

The only thing that separates the person you are from the person you want to be are the actions you take.

Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.

My nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.

At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.

Finding a balance, that's what we're all trying to do.

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.