"Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families."

“Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.”

Source : "On Creativity, Marijuana and 'a Butterfly Effect in Thought'" by Jason Silva, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

“You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.”

Source : "Choice is rarely black and white" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2010.

“Time brings all things to pass.”

“If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.”

“I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.”

“The trouble today is that we have too many laws.”

“If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.”

“When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know its got legs.”