"A good writer is not, as it is sometimes thought, a man who has an idea, but one who is possessed by an idea."

"I left my heart in San Francisco. My father left his in a sanitarium. My mother left hers in a shoe box in the attic."

"I’m not a hero. I’m just a guy who tries."

"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."

"I'm a pessimist by nature, but an optimist by choice."