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

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

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.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

The world is best viewed through the lens of your heart.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

Certainly it is not a democracy.

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

Painting is an investigation of being.

I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.