It's all about letting the story take over.

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'd rather risk confusion and stay creatively fresh and stimulated. I feel like I'm growing and challenging myself all the time.

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

I got married at 17, had three kids by the time I was 24, and have never had much time alone. I never had time to develop hobbies. Now, if I have nothing to do, I just find myself cleaning drawers incessantly.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

As a single woman, I reap the benefits of being Stifler's mom.

Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.

Receiving an economic boost from the digital era is not a luxury - it is essential to ensuring that Europe continues to grow and deliver levels of prosperity that meet the rising expectations of its citizens.

Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment Mercy.

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.

The obscurest epoch is today.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

You have to laugh, especially at yourself.

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.