Travel is something that I like to do because it gives you lots of images, and it also really makes you think about your own place in the world in a very different way.

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.

I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.

If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way.

I want a God big enough to love those who don't believe in him.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

Make every day count, because you're never promised a next day.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.