Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

I had a mustache when I was 13.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

I was a geek in high school.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. Some will love it.Some will hate it.That’s the nature of art.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

Fair weather cometh out of the north.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Literary critics make natural detectives.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

The pure soul is a pure lie.

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.