I was a precocious reader.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

With great inspiration, every man can reach their highest potential.

How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

You can't fail if you don't quit. You can't succeed if you don't start.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.