I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

The drug problem’ cannot be understood without a critical examination of the language and narratives of underpinning the explanatory models invoked to prove that there is a 'drug problem.

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.

I do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

Expressing my feelings and then the opportunity to share it with others is just such a gift.

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.