German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away.

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

The Army was my bread and butter.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural.

Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man.

We all have hapiness inside and its not at all hard to find. Its sealed deep in our hearts and guarded by our soul. You dont have to beg to use it. All you have to do is choose it

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

My style changes every day. I would say its casual chic.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.

So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up - because they have great values and a great sense of self.

I used to live above Manganaro's, when old Times Square was still peaking, and it still had a lot of diners and theaters on the forty deuce, as they used to call it. It was full of character. And it wasn't Disneyland. Now it's so touristy and full of bright lights, I can't stand it. It's like going to a big mall.

Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.

The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find its something we create.

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

Parents who struggle to get a witness of the Savior into the heart of a child will be helped as they seek for a way to bring the words and the spirit of the Book of Mormon into the home and all the lives in their family.

When I am on the blocks, I don't care who you are - I will always try and beat you.