I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we become One. It is called pro-creation and it is reborn continually and forever in the future we call children. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents... we fail as God's Children.

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.