I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.