I always liked spy stories..

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back..

So many of the great detectives that we see on television now owe their origins to Sherlock Holmes. What was very exciting about Rob's pitch and scri….

Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made..

I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories..

Words, however, are things..

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s..

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they l….

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well..

Let's kill somebody to Sinatra! Or to early Elvis!.

There seemed nothing to do but live..

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity..

Faith must be worked at..

It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!.

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again..

Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to sur….

The more it changes, the more it's the same thing..

To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after - a story that whatever c….

I always knew I would adopt. Always..

Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else..

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as….