Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept of God and on the existence of God?

I think only an idiot can be an atheist.

and that's where love finds you... in the tragedies.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal."-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

A cloud of white death veiled in black…

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

Small towns seem to appreciate things a little bit more. They're less jaded and they're more kind of authentic and more themselves and they don't care as much.