I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

I'm one of three brothers.

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

When you do exams you never want to be the one who finishes first and you never want to be the one who finishes last.

Prayer is man's greatest power!

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers.

Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.