I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

We're naturally afraid of a spider - these are memories that are being chemically passed down through your DNA.

I tend to be a very logical, practical person.

Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

I don't think I've ever done anything that's completely the same, yet.

I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

If the sale of flesh could be made as easily as the sale of spiritual exemption, the prescience of a dedicated businessman might be well preserved.

Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.