There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated.

One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.

If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.

I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it this once, because even now I want you to see it. I don't love you anymore, of course I don't, but there's still something I can show you. You know I want to be a director, but you never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.