Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Greed has taken the whole universe and nobody is worried about their soul.

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

Her smile could wash away a thousand doubts as soon as light up a room.

The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.

My fans know me and love me the way I am. I don't want to lie to my fans.

Being hurt is something you cant stop from happening but being miserable is always your choice.

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opinion in the United States - he's never harmed anybody, he just has an opinion about a president that wasn't good for our country.

People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.

If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.

I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.

As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein so also the chitta vrtti fluctuations of mind disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

There's no need to overwhelm yourself with thoughts, because you know that you're just as good or better than some of the players you're going up against.

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.

In Chicago it's really a case of the play's the thing - people are just so happy to be acting, you know? We were all actors - not like in New York or Los Angeles, where everyone says they are actors but they are actually waiting tables and hustling for spots in commercials.