Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

The key to creating a successful system is to make it as uncomplicated as possible.

We are the sum total of our experiences, be they positive or negative, they bring out the best or worst in us and make us the person who we are today and what we will be in the future.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

I think the U.S. is falling behind. There's massive government initiatives going around the world and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

People learn from people they love.

Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.