Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

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.

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

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

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.

A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things.

Dream’s elixir veered between light and clouds to save the blue..

Money has replaced the vote.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on earth.

Everything's a 360 and that's what's so funny about life now, and they're right at that age and I have teenagers now, and I'm like 'Wow I remember when I did that.' Aint nothing new.

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

I just really want to do stand-up and act in stuff that I like. And do stuff that makes me really happy.