The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

I want a house that has got over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

I look at it [Scream movie] and think, wow, I can't believe I wrote that at such a young age. I also look at it and go, ohhh ouch, that dialogue, whoa.

Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.