When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.
If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.
You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick