Believe in your dreams and when people doubt you, prove them wrong.

Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling.

What if making peace with our warring hearts—peace within—is the first step to world peace?

I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that ultimately make them a better person in a way.

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.

I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

Love is one of those things that should be so simple. You don't need to think about it and over analyze it when it's good.

I don't like my feet. I'm not crazy about anybody's feet. But I have flat feet.