I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

I love you like the devil loves his pitchfork. I love you like the angel loves his wings. I love you from here to heaven, through hell and back again.

As we travel to new places we gain new perspectives and renew our thinking.

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.

As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide?

A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.

There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

Always and everywhere, the only serious political issue is what the state should and should not do. All the rest distracts.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.