I'd started calling my parents but only when I knew they wouldn't be home.

I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

With…love of wind, there is no surer test of genuine Nature instinct that this. Any body can love sunshine.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

Science ... is organized common sense.

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.