The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

Oh great. Yoda captured us.

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)

They call me, The Sharkalator

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

It is only by persistent focus on your dreams you will pull all the divine forces for the passion of fulfilled dream.

Lift yourself to great heights.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

I have to talk like this! It's my job

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.