Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

Our success depends on goal-oriented, focused actions, not on distractions.

God holds the key to every door.

It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less but it is so much beautiful if humanity takes much from you, it is an investment into life.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man.

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.