Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

Keep enjoying it, and if you do that, then you are going to get better.

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

I grew up in a great family.

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

Competition helps people figure it out.

I've been playing since I was eight years old.

I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.

It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.

I want to be involved in soccer some way.

You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.

Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.

I like small, domestic stories.

Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

I'm really close to Stephen Sommers. He was a really nice man.

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Complexity begets ambiguity which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat men as arm them with fancy.

I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the danger and action. The ones that really transcend the genre always have a great laugh in them, such as 'Fright Night,' 'Lost Boys,' 'American Werewolf in London' - just to name a few.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles the way temperature and pressure and volume are but about our lack of information.

I don't care about my image.

I can tell women's confidence levels rise when they wear heels.

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

As a wheelchair user, I am utterly obsessed with toilets, and all my friends know it. A simple invitation to the pub is consistently followed by, 'Do you know if they have an accessible toilet?'