Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

When you're a kid, you have these big dreams and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference

And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!

You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.

In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant.