I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

The triangle of success for an Entrepreneur is not only composed of his Net Worth, but also his Self Worth, and Net Works.

Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there!

Art is a song of the soul that is sung by the light of the heart with the color of emotion and appreciation.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

The single most important thing you can do to get elected is to have street money!

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,” Joe said quietly. “They were all you, to me. All of them were you.

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.