Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.