To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.

When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.

We're doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings.

I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house.

Inspiration awakens our creativity, enables us to do the impossible, and improves our mental efficiency. It fires up the soul.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

I'm not real huge on horror films, but there's something really special about this.

Golf is a passion that will stay with me forever. That's all I know.