I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

Marcii hoped she was wrong, though she knew the odds were slim.Still, in the face of everything, there is always hope.

Anger is the fire of ego which tries to burn the beauties of heart and soul.

I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.