When you frequently invest your time and energy in your own business, the need to mind other people's business would become a stranger in your thoughts.

Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

I live a great life. I can't complain. I'm healthy, my family's good and there's nothing I can really complain about.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.