For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

You can't make everybody happy.

Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.

It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

Fate doesn’t care about family. When the time is up, she nicks at the thread

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

Fame is a big joke. Stars need to stop taking themselves so seriously.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.