A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.

Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.