You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

The strong leader takes a chance when there is little hope, The hope that he will succeed and little chance of failure

Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom, It helps not, it prevails not.

Life will not give you what you want, it will give you what you work for.

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.

I started writing more with my voice in mind.

I wouldn't mind being a lord.

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.