The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

live your life as if you may lose everything.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.

I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.