I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life.

I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.

I actually find it pretty tedious when magazines ask me to write articles based on my real life, because I've already lived it and there's nothing new to discover. So, I'm unlikely to write a memoir.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

Paranoid means you are aware of 10% of the problem

I like it better when my room is pitch black, when the dark is so thick it swallows me up and I feel as if I could drown in it.

I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

Holding her hand in public is just another way of saying you're proud to have her.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.