I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.

And the most dangerous place on earth - Is where you’re safe.

I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

Ridley Scott obviously an iconic director, he's made some fantastic films. Obviously a very smart, very tasteful, thoughtful guy. So yeah, I'm in good shape; got Ridley Scott with The Cartel.

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.

I think you can use fiction to get inside people's minds.

A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader’s mind with the colors of emotion.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!

It's strange, because Long Island is still New York, but the farther you go out on Long Island, the more creepy it gets.

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that.

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.