Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.