They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

Mind what people do not only what they say for deeds will betray a lie.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Sometimes thats all life is... One desperate act after another.

The worse you are at thinking the better you are at drinking.

Ive always said fantasy is sort of stealth philosophy.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away and shows us that the shape of our fear is only the ghost of our own minds.

Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her that she had always been a part of him that her needs were his needs.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.

When there are thoughts it is distraction when there are no thoughts it is meditation.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

To the newlyweds: May for better or worse be far better than worse.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show ever. The writers on that show created a relationship that writers today still fail to rip off successfully: the Sam and Diane.

I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

When friendships are real they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we can know.