Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. ‘God.’ ‘Science.’ Meaning.

Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who’s getting screwed.

There’s no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.

It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.

You've got to love the game and the game will love you back.

My father always said, 'Bet on yourself.'

Science can be useful, or it can just get in the way.

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

The more we are cleansed of conflicts, all sorts of conflicts, the easier it is for us to use our energy in a way that attracts the immutable healing of it all.

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.