There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.

The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.