My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Pain is there when you are born, Its the very first thing you feel when you come in to the world.Then why run? Face it head on, cry in it, laugh in it because in the end pain is what you will remember.

Nolan was the only one who knew the real Lexi Shaw, and that was exactly how I intended to keep it.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

Success in life is about obsession

Imagination is my best friend.

I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.

Just remember that those things that get attention flourish.