The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.