Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

Success is anything that gives you strength to work harder.

My swimming cap was really sprouting leaks these days. The thing is, you could patch over the holes, but it would never be the same. Like my love life.

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.

Mind and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing.

The best thing we can do for the dead is to do their share of living with a smile. ~Train Heartnet

Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

I don't predict knockouts. The outcome and the performance I am looking for is a victory, nothing less than a victory.