Women think that men don't talk about their feelings with guys. We do talk to friends about relationships, but it's succinct - 10 minutes, then we move on.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

My nipples could cut glass.

There's always someone we'd love to kill, the trick is to make it not look like an accident

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Say it with flowers.

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.