No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about kids, which is a little bit like putting the experience under a magnifying glass, you realize you have no idea how you thought as a kid. I've come to the conclusion that most of the things that we remember about our childhood are lies. We all have memories that stand out from when we were kids, but they're really just snapshots. You can't remember how you reacted because your whole head is different when you stand aside.

You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.