The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

If we must put our head into the lion’s mouth, let us make certain that he chokes upon our flesh!

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am.

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.