Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan.

California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.

Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean

This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America

A Spaniard and a Pole worked in the barbershop where we got our hair cut. An Italian shined our shoes. A Croat washed our car. This was America.

Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time, " said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are in a terrible bind.

There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?

This is desire, daughter, the endless piercing that informs the universe throughout eternity,

Any thought that goes against your happiness or progress surely doesn't deserve a space in your mind.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.

The more you’re willing to risk, the more God can use you. And if you’re willing to risk everything, then there is nothing God can’t do in you and through you.

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

It's a really fulfilling life if you can make your job what you love doing.

I don't need the audience, but sometimes it's nice to have a gauge - not so I know how I feel, but so I get what is or isn't working for moviegoers.