I do my very best to not allow external trends or zeitgeists to feed into what I'm producing.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

There is no authority but yourself.

It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

I enjoy nothing more than creating new series and watching them grow in front of me month by month. It's a muscle I spent many years developing and it feels good to be using it again.

A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days

Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.