I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.

I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place.

A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.

So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two.

No this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

Humanity will live as long as there are humans.