If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

When...has a mugging case ever heard a defense attorney claim, 'Your Honor, the victim was dressed in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex. Clearly he was begging to be assaulted.'

Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

We're all of us dying . . . from the moment we're born

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

If you can’t dream big, you will never see the vivid colors of probability over the darkness of possibility.

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.

Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events

You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.

There are a lot of other movies I've done multiple times, like Werewolf Of Washington, where I really get tired of watching it.

Achievement is its own reward

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.

Be bold, brave and not afraid to fall on your face and ultimately you will succeed

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.