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.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

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.