If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

I am not sure I trust you.""You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.

Were you lying?""I never lie, " he said piously. "About what?""The sand, the snake."For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

Anything is Possible!

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.

A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.