I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.

I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.

Lycans are human.

Fight back. Bite back.

They’re always wrong in the movies.

I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.

In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.

What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform.

Relationship is like a job but you can't ever retire. When you stop working at it, it stops working.

Michael Jackson changed the world and, more personally, my life forever.