Life happened because I turned the pages.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

I wanted to live among books.

You can certainly shorten things and tighten things, we tightened up Jon's walk to Mance Rayder's tent. That was something that got tightened up a little bit because I had shot the hell out of that.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.

Our law enforcement must have every tool necessary to find and disrupt terrorists at home and abroad. That's the task of the 21st century.

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

A man is a god in ruins.

I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.