Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

I hate our current leaders becouse they don't know the value of there people, but like there ideas because it will soon turn against them and any of there kind.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

(The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.

Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.