I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I'm not a breakfast eater.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.

If everything is happy go-lucky all the time, you don't know when you're experiencing joy and feeling life at its finest moments. You have to suffer a little.

It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

Win the game in your mind, before the starting whistle.

Horses were a way to travel to get to where we are today, and it is our job to protect them.