Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher.

There was a period of cinema, in the mid-90's, that I was a huge fan of, with Heat and Seven, and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films.

We must protect and share the world.

But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.

I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

Religion starts with the perception that something is wrong.

I am available to more good than I have ever experienced, imagined, or realized before in my life.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.