I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify.

Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much?

You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

It's a really nice thing to have so many fans and people that really care.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

Just to say "Well, God is dead" in one breath is to say, in another, that nothing means anything. This is the moment of nihilism. Nihilism is the affirmation of meaninglessness.