I have the infinite galaxy from '2001 as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.

I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.

When I was younger, things came so easily to me. It was just natural.

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.