"My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer."

“I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.”

“It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.”

“There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!”

“I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.”

“It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.”

“It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.”

“Be thou a bright flame before me, Be thou a guiding star above me, Be thou a smooth path below me, Today, tonight and forever.”

Source : Alexander Carmichael (2012). “Celtic Prayers and Incantations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

“The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.”

Source : "Interview with a Vampire: Inside CBS' Bloody-fun Moonlight". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. September 28, 2007.