It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E I E I O.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

For they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles.

An entrepreneur is born when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses.

I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.

When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.

Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.

It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.

I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out.

You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

I have a long-term interest in the humanities.

When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.