First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers

Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.