I'm always geeking out about something.

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where decisions made in the first impact the last.

No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student.

Stephen King is open about the fact that he continues to learn the craft, and if King hasn't got it figured out yet, what the hell hope have the rest of us got?

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

Past Present And Future Exist All At Once As Parallel Moments In Time.

... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come

A good relationship isn’t all about what you get from it but

The best way to find inner peace is the practice in forbearance.

I praise the Frenchman his remark was shrewd - "How sweet how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.

Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.