May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.

Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants... I wish it would do more interesting things!

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.