I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

We are all born equally far from the sun.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you.

Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.

What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.

Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.