People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?

I'm an advocate of all mediums - it's a larger canvas for us as artists - but we have to keep in mind that celluloid film is what created this wonderful art form, and we have to keep it alive.

I've got a pretty wild imagination, and a lot of times, I have to be reeled back in.