Quotes About Author

My perception of your beauty was far more erotic than your real beauty! Am I to be blamed for taking too much effort on my part in beautifying you or did you fail in seducing me?

...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

Beneath the moons' shadowscape, wisdom, women, whiskey and you are a dangerous and provocative combination...

I don't enjoy writing newspaper articles any more than people like reading them. I'm a standup comic, not a journalist, although sometimes onstage I will say: 'What else is in the news?' Writing is work, which I'm not comfortable with.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

The big AI dreams of making machines that could someday evolve to do intelligent things like humans could - I was turned off by that. I didn't really think that was feasible when I first joined Stanford.

Usually, to promote a new work, I'll aspire to be published in the 'Columbia Law Review' or the 'Stanford Law Review' and to have at least five really enticing footnotes.

I am a Professor of Psychology at Palo Alto University and a Research Psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

I'm a huge fan of San Francisco. And I was out here for a couple years in the mid-'90s when I was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at Stanford. I was so intimidated.

Stanford's an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer program.

I went to classes on writing for film and theatre as well as short stories at Stanford.

Stanley Tucci is a classy actor, and Ian Holm is very short but equally classy - and both are also amazing.

I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.

My favorite anime movie is 'Fist of the North Star'.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Look at 'Bonanza.' If you rely on a gimmick or one big star, you've got a problem.

Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.

My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'

Diana Krall I met in, I think it was Canada. She's a lovely lady. Her husband, Elvis Costello, is a great star.

I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.

I had this almost secret life of going to 'Star Wars' conventions because,' when I was younger, Star Wars' had phased into the uncool part of its life and had yet to become cool again for everybody else.

I'm such a fan of films and books like 'Lord of the Rings' and even 'Star Wars,' despite the fact that, as an actor, I'll never be employed by them.

What I love about 'Monster Hunter' is the incredibly beautiful, immersive world they've created. It's on the level of, like, a 'Star Wars' movie in terms of world creation.