I need eclectic people in my life.

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

When personal growth is missing, there is no peace.

In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden, Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth.He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboatcomes slowly out and then goes back is truly worthall the years of sorrow that are to come.

They are able who think they are able.

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.