I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.

I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.

Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.

Horror is so basic. You'd get an adrenaline jolt from watching your mom get gored by a woolly mammoth. A horror movie gives you the adrenaline without having to have your mom get gored.

I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat's eye - a fake one - made for a taxidermist. I really like animals.

Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else.

I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.

I am unique.I have mission.I have a calling.I will fulfill my highest potential and calling.

Intuition is the gentle hand of divine love.

Me, Tarzan. You, Jane. I kill bad guy. Beat chest. Tarzan howl.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

I'd like to have and adopt children. I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.