"I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it."

“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”

“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.”

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

“Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.”

Source : Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.208, Penguin

“African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.”

“More and more, I play myself, as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project, or initiated my own things. I was never known as the guy who wrote romantic comedies or sci-fi, or whatever, but that's fun to me. The first two films I ever had made, as a writer, were both thrillers, which was great. There was nothing funny about either of them, or not intentionally. I actually love that.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.”

“Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.”

“If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again”

Source : "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book edited by James L. Harmon, 2007.