All Interesting Heroes Have An Achilles Heel.

You Get Spoiled As A Novelist Because You Get To Be The Director And The Editor, And You Play All The Parts, But As A Screenwriter, You Are A Bit Down The Ladder.

A Horse Perceives Eye Contact As Provocative, As If It And Its Status In The Herd Are Not Being Respected. If It Cannot Avoid Eye Contact, It Will React In A Different Way, By Rebelling For Example. In Dressage You Don't Get Anywhere By Not Showing Respect, However Superior Your Species Might Be. Any Animal Trainer Can Tell You That. In The Mountains In Argentina There's A Wild Horse Which Will Jump Off The Nearest Precipice If Any Human Tries To Ride It.

I Was Sleeping In A Water Bed For A Couple Of Years, Recommended By My Doctor. I Was Never Comfortable In That Water Bed. In The Middle Of The Night You Would Hear Something Happening - Water And Bubbles. I Would Always Think There Was Some Intelligent Life In The Water Bed.

When I Propose A Candidate For A Job I Don't Do It Because The Person In Question Is The Best But Because He Is The One The Client Will Employ. I Provide Them With A Head That Is Good Enough, Placed On A Body They Want. [...] The World Is Full Of People Who Pay Serious Money For Bad Pictures By Good Artists. And Mediocre Heads On Tall Bodies.

The Only Pressure I Feel Is To Write Good Books. And To Not Replicate The Previous Book. Whether You Have A Thousand Readers Or A Million Readers It Doesn't Change The Pressure. I Never Feel Tempted To Give The Reader What I Think The Reader Wants.