I just love my age. I really do. I feel like once I hit 40, I felt free to be me.

Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.