Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

The more we construct lives that prioritize safety, the bigger the prison we construct around ourselves.

Friends are like ants, they walk into your life unnoticed and take over your life as if its like their own. But unlike ants they leave behind million smiles, uncountable memories.

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

Agriculture is the new golf

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

Anything we put on screen has gone through massive changes. That's always part of the process.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.