Quotes About Author

Luckily the script [of X-files episode] was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.

I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

The question was which spell did I make? Which did I have time to make? The answer was eerily simple. I had time to make all of them.

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.

Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"..."But I thought it was just the one time?

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.