I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

It's all about letting the story take over.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.

It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

I am disappointed that the President made the decision to have Ambassador Froman sign the TPP agreement in New Zealand.

When you already have a following, people are more likely to employ you.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

Society is funny, they ask to be yourself, and yet they judge you.

You have to go where the good writing is.

If you know you can do better… then do better.

I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.

Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me.

Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

People say to me, 'Do you know who you look like?' And I say, 'I'm really tired of looking like that guy.'

In the end, the world returns to a grain.

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'

Hope is a believe in God.

Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.

I wouldn't know what to do retiring. So I have no plans to retire.