After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

The Lord is our hope.The Lord is our help.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.