Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.