I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

You know how dey say some people “devour” books? Not in da way ME do! Me REALLY devour books!

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.

As we renew and honor our covenants, our burdens can be lightened and we can continually become purified and strengthened.

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.