But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

The Army was my bread and butter.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.

To love is as natural as the blue sky.

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

Reality is something you rise above.

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.