If you believe in someone enough, and you just don't stop believing in them, mo matter what, no matter how much they push you away, and no matter how often they prove they're only there to use you.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us.

The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.