The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.
I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
After 911, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.
It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.
I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.
If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.
Once I beat a guy, mentally and physically, hes never the same.
I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.