Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

I need eclectic people in my life.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

I put a knife in your hand and your first instinct was to stab me.""You tried to stab me first, " I objected without thinking.

Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life – separated you are a mere speck of dust in vast ocean of space-time capable of nothing progressive.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

We need a bold, new, positive vision for the future of our country.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

The average age of our members is about 79. They expected them (leaders) to be taking care of everything, and in reality, they were taking care of nothing.