The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Without civilized social graces, not only is life more difficult, but a positive first impression can be destroyed as fast as it is made.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.

Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.

I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.

We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.

There are no rules in life. It’s a mind-set that limits people dramatically.