I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

You drool in your sleep- Annabeth Chase

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

They can't hurt you unless you let them.

It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong

In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch."

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.