"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."

"Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting."

"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"

"I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool."

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."

"I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week."

"Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful."