"If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it."

"Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself."

"In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it."

"I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that the legacy we leave is written in the hearts of others."

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."

"Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone."

"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability."