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.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

The word impossible says I'm possible

I’m memorizing what takes me away. What saves me.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

The real world is horrible.

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

Don't mess with me, Calvin. You'll only get hurt.

Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.