Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy.

I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.

I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents.

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.

If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

I didn’t mean to fall in love with you, but I did.- Chelsea

The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for two of them to go on alone

I'm a writer, but I'm not writing to entertain you, I'm writing to keep alive my knowledge.

You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.