I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

If your dreams and goals get derailed, they're not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick 'em up and put 'em back on again.

Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live in peace forever.

If I'm more prepared, the success will fall on me; if not, it will fall on someone else, and I'm okay with that.

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.

Just to hear President Obama speak - he's eloquent, he's so classy.

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

When we're fully engaged in the present moment, no matter what we're doing, the question of meaning never seems to arise. It's because we feel fulfilled and that is inherently meaningful.

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.