I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back together again and watch it go, what's the point?

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old.

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Now is the time for all good men to run like hell.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

What’s wrong with just talking? Isn’t that why bars were invented? So you could talk to somebody over a drink—as opposed to sitting at home alone getting sloshed?

Once upon a time there was a saucer pie. A saucer pie is one that is baked in a saucer instead of a pan; and if you have never seen one, I hope you will before you are a hundred years old.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.