We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the 'cubistic' treatment of shooting football. It was the same thing Picasso did except we did it with a football play. It's taking a single image and looking at it from multiple perspectives.

For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

I've learned how to make a nice souffle, a little mac and cheese.

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.