What is a monster? Something that grows hair all over and howls? Could be. But the real monster is within, and when it comes out, it’s as fugly as you see it, or as it lets you see it.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

Suffering is seeing what Jesus sees, and joy is doing what Jesus does.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

I think that a solid team, solid communication, is the number one thing in life at all times.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

No religion has a separate God showering grace only on those who profess to abide by that faith.