The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

The one whose egoism is gone, he becomes God. One is a mortal (jivatma) as long as there is egoism and if his egoism goes away, he becomes the eternal Absolute Supreme Soul (Paramatma).

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a specimen's left ear.