I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.

I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

I don't think anyone's normal.

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

What I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line.

Don't ask people to do something you wouldn't.

If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!

I've got some issues that nobody can see and all of these emotions are pouring out of me I bring them to the light for you it's only right

And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.

You haven’t changed at all. I expected a perceptible difference, but here you are, red-faced just like always.

I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing.