The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.

I used to live in New York and now I live in L.A., and somehow I've become a different person because of the air and what I see every day, and I think we all do.

Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.

Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe.

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Nobody likes a clown at midnight

Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.