Desire is the impulse that sparks the flame.

Whenever new knowledge causes you to question your previous assumptions, the stage is set for creative transformation.

Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.

One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.