"To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength."

“Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.”

“We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation”

“God, three weddings in one day, I'm going to be in Spanx for 12 hours. My elastic line is gonna get infected again.”

“Life without dreaming is a life without meaning.”

“I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.”

Source : "This much I know" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2002.

“Speak to all men as you do to yourself, with no concern for the effect you make, so that you do not shut them out from your world; lest in isolation the meaning of life slips out of sight and you lose the belief in the perfection of creation.”

Source : "The Voice of the Dolphins: And Other Stories". Book by Leo Szilard, 1961.

“I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com