After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.

The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point you give it to the director and their vision. You're there to support that vision.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.

You are more than human. You are a child of God.

You must become what you want to attract.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.