You can really do more than you think you can do.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.

Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.

Learn from the past but don't forget to live for the present moment. This moment is your life.

You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive — or cheap — his clothes are.

My difficulties belong to me!

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.