Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated.

Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

If people want to see me in comedies, that's fine with me.

We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

The Miami Heat has the best fans.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.

But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.