Whether you're eighteen or sixty, in a certain way, whatever you know is valid.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

It's a big world, and I really like it.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

I don’t feel very much like Pooh today, " said Pooh."There there, " said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.

The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson

We designers have been working to stimulate people's souls and minds.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.