I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

The Army was my bread and butter.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

The character of good men and women encourage others to want to be better people.

If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

I just love going down into the crowd and getting people pumped up and dancing.