"I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?"

"I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me."

"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."

"In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason."

"I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny."

"When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters."

"Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life."

"Wisdom principle 68 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 18."