I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

If a muse knocked at our studio door tomorrow, how many of us would even notice?

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

A picture should be looked at - not talked about.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.

Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.

I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate.

I think only stupid people have good relationships.