I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

My success is not who I am.

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I guess I've always been quite interested in the Situationists' ideas about urbanism and spectacle and how we move through life.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

I was a studious child, heavily into academics. For the longest time, I wouldn't talk.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.

Remember we all stumble every one of us. Thats why its a comfort to go hand in hand.

For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.

To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.

Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.

When talking to first-time entrepreneurs, I often ask them: 'How do you know that people want your product or service?' As you can expect, the answer is often that they don't yet, but will know once they launch. And they're right. That's why it's critical to launch as quickly as possible so you can get that feedback.

Come on, you can't name a truck after a chick.

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.

I'm a big fan of Aamir Khan... Among actresses, I like Aishwarya Rai.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.

Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition.

I could work 24 hours and I wouldn't complain once because I'm happiest when I'm working.

Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.

I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.

Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family.