The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Sometimes my age is inappropriate for my behavior.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing it's the most exciting form of communication.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant.

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.