Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

When I want a peerage I shall buy one like an honest man.

So many books, so little time.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

I'm kinda doing a lot of stuff.

Being a woman is hard work.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.