because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.