On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map. . . . A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there. . . and still on your feet.
I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.
The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
You have to take those concepts and prove them, a little bit like you do a PhD thesis.