The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

That sums up why it's crazy to meet Paul McCartney because he's the type of n - - that needs that.

Regardless of what we understand or do not understand, we are what we speak. That's how we are known.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand.

Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.

I'm going to the Super Bowl again.

I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself.