The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

I must be really ugly or something, because nobody wants me. Not even God wants me. That's why he makes me stand out here in the cold. - excerpt from: freefalling

Boomerang arrow, Kate -- It comes back to you in the end. Boomerang. Respect it.

The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.