You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.

I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.

Lycans are human.

Fight back. Bite back.

They’re always wrong in the movies.

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.

The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically barred or regulated by the [Constitution] is LEGAL.

We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

My next goal is to be number one in the world.

I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks.

In the new organisation, power flows from expertise, not position.