It’s always nice to learn a thing or two from a novel, don’t you think?

How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they’ve seen on the American movie screen?

Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

If we repent of our sins, we shall recieve refreshing time from the Lord.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. Thereverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

I'm right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn't have been me.