I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don’t care that they’re ignorant and incompetent.

If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as many words as you think to make an impact.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?

Huh, a lovers quarrel with a vampire- seems like a fantastic idea!

How I feel is inconsequential to all that I have stopped feeling for.

Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless of the odds, your goal and objective always is to win. I think that's part of sports.

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

I am feeling as if my parents are my children. I'm extremely protective about both of them while on the set

You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.