When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

And as a writer, one of the things that I’ve always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

I like being with my family. That’s my party.

The kind of fiction I’m trying to write is about telling the truth.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

Energy begets energy.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

I was saving the name of ‚Geisel‘ for the Great American Novel.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I’m bloody awful at multi-tasking.

Never mistake motion for action.

I’m most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page… sunrise over the desert and masses of… a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.