I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Part of the journey in life is slipping and falling along the way

Enthusiasm moves the world.

I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Pastors need to find their place in the community of believers by spending time with God.