If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

If you want to know more about someone, look at their results.

Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

I'd like to do what I see in my head. I always feel like I'm directing with one hand tied behind my back.

I want our children in America to know the limits of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

We need to find means for cooperation.