The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.

Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.

Men should be what they seem.

Feeble minds are tamed, great minds always conquer..

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.

If anyone's comments affect anyone that much, I think it's more about their own security with themselves, because you can call me whatever, and I'm going to be good.

I'm confident in myself, either way. I've pitched big games all my life.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.