A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.

Understanding what is being said is only a fraction of the task of communicating. Taking in signals from the entire context is critical.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.

TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.