For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.

Your life informs your writing.

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

What good does it do you to love?

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.

Worldbuilding to me is taking the consequences of an idea.

I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.

I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.

I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.

This new world was already turning her into a cabbagehead, and she'd only been a part of it for an evening

Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.