Literature is humanity talking to itself.

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same.

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

A twelve year old Ben Linus just gave me a chicken salad sandwich, how do you think I am?

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.

Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.