I don't have dry seasons, because I don't allow them.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.

I never realized how much you meant to me until someone spoke your name and an irrepressible, goofy grin stretched my lips.

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

Mystical powers develop primarily through the raising of the kundalini. The Kundalini is a type of energy that exists within all things. It's possible to pull that energy, to mass it, to transmit it.

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.