I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

The challenge is what makes the success worthwhile.

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

Nobody is wired wrong, because there's no wrong and right in the way we are.

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.