Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.