You can really do more than you think you can do.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

I write in American slang.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

Is anything accidental?

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

I was a precocious reader.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I never learned to read music.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order.

In the U.S., those requesting a Green Card must take an oath that they will fulfill the rights and duties of citizenship.

A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.

I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.

I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.

Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.

I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a diehard dancer so I was constantly at dance classes and working toward my passion of dance.

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who havent made up their minds.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there is a man on base.

I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.

I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God's face.

I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

I have always given money away. I haven't always been wealthy - the opposite, in fact. But I have always felt that I wanted people to share it with me.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.