If the inspiration is genuine and it's coming from the right place, that's what I like and want to be a part of.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years.

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.