The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things.

Reach for something out of the ordinary. You must dare to even come close.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

Vampire fad just won't die. Makes sense, I guess.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.

Keep your brain active. Engage your brain. Your brain is the most fantastic machine ever created, and it needs to be exercised.

If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.