I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.

You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.

Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

I've learned a ton since 2004.

It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.