I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years.

First of all, on a cinematic [level], the film answer to that is that Roger Corman was creatively responsible for a lot of cinema history.

I shot a lot of stuff that no one will ever see. That was my student work. What also happened was there was a big jump in technology.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

It's only interesting when you're from somewhere else, like America or Japan. The further away the more interesting it is.

I felt the breath of God go cold on my skin.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.