Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.

To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

I admire anyone who can walk across a stage to the mic and not trip.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.