I never learned to read music.

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.

Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure.

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

God cares a lot more about who we are and who we are becoming than about who we once were.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It’s the way I am. I love it.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.

Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.