I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

Wine is like beer except different.

We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

If he [Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.

A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live.

Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.