I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping those pages was a waste of time. And I still believe that.

Great morning prayer is like marinating in the Holy Spirit.

I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing...but I hate the Yankees.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

I'd stop the world from spinning for you

Me, I'm still a rascal. Inside, I am still the kid I was. He guides me everyday.