I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes.

With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.

Great relationships create great characters. Make them feel real. Alive. Tangible and unforgettable. Bad relationships kill them. Bury them. Make you wish they hadn't wasted your precious time.

Of course I believe in magic. I believe in storytelling.

Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.

Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.

Life is about connection, not perfection.

To reach for yourself is to survive, to reach for others is to provide.

I just want you to know, I love the way you look at me. Make's me feel like everything's gonna be okay.

There is no better designer than nature.

Hope with deep driving desires is an order of the most delicious delicacy in a restaurant we call the universe.

Your angels know exactly how much information you can handle at any one moment.

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

There's always this weird dark humor within a lot of Depeche Mode songs that people miss, tongue-in-cheek and also very British.

London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds himself homeless elsewhere, he had better either die or go to London.

You are the eternal France, I love you.

Fundamental rights are not a given today. We have to protect them.