I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort (purushartha) can be made. But instead, people push it aside.

The holocaust is the solution to the Jews final question

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

You do something wrong, you learn from it, you move on.

You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.