Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.

Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.

Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.

Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

Time to turn some phrases and place them on these here pages.

The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

Seek spirituality of thy soul.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.