I should be concentrating on writing pages.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.

I feel happy to terrify kids.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.

Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room!

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

If you're over stressed it's because you're under asked.

People who are rude to waiters... I don't like that sort of thing. People who take cuts in line... it doesn't fly!

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.

It's like an Alcatraz around my neck