Late style gets simpler and shorter, and here, I'm getting more abundant as I get older!

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

The fight for photography became my life.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

The key is to enjoy life, because they don't want you to enjoy life.

Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?

Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.

On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence.

Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).