I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not always a humane or necessary decision.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

How many races have been dehumanized in the name of evolution and scientific race theories? Is a bomb a religious or a scientific invention?

-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.-Deny it, damn you!

Be lucky, Xander, and be brave. You will find that bravery and luck are often bedfellows.

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

Good Soldiers don't sacrifice the cause for love - Lucas If the cause isn't love then it isn't worth the sacrifice

Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

I've come to see that the way my life shows up is actually my purpose.