We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

The best things arrive on time.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

Raven scowled through his too-long bangs. “The Angel Song doesn’t hurt humans. It only affects the evil within.” “Then you should be writhing on the ground with the hounds, ” Mace mumbled.

I lock all my scaredness down in my stomach until the fear hardens into something I hardly notice. I myself harden into a person that I hardly notice.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

I'm basically talking to the audience, standing alone, describing the weather. It's very rudimentary, the dialogue, saying what the weather is like that day.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

I'm the worst person to tell anybody how to date.

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.