Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.

Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem

If you study of scriptures, you find sacredness of life.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

I have done lots of music projects in my life and some of them I am more proud of than others.

I had to work with a psychiatrist.

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.

I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.

I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood.

I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.