Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

Is there a word for when you are young and pretending to have lived and loved a thousand lives? Is there a German word for that? Let's say its schaufenfrieglasploit.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.