He likes to think of himself as someone who can give quick clever answers to awkward questions. It is an important part of his self-esteem.

She is a wiry blanched creature with no beauty. Her expression reminds him of a crumpled letter – there is both sadness and anger in it.

The act of creation, the impetus to undertake it, is always some kind of feeble attempt to understand one’s own creation, the nature of creation itself.

Artists, like criminals, are dependent on a jury.

And who isn’t less innocent than they lead us to believe? That’s one of the fundamental truths about human nature.

A journey indeed, in an emotional roller-coaster.

One of the great aspects about [Barack Obama] is who he is as a human.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.