I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

You can't make everybody happy.

Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.

It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been

I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

Although we have not assigned God a sexual orientation, a height, or eye color, we have thought nothing of assigning a gender and a religion (God always belongs to the same one we do).

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.