I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write.

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise, there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

I thought you'd have the decency to change. But babe, I guess you didn't take that warning, cause I'm not about to look at your face again.

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

I thought you were going to break out into the running man, Carlton?

For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.

I'm hoping that I continue to be innovative on things that are tremendously visible and are still important projects.

Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.