The Army was my bread and butter.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.

The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

I'm chasing perfection.

Progressive rock was happening.