The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

No one ever fell in love gracefully.

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.

If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.

Love shouldn't be comfortable.

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls.