Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain

There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.

Oops Typo!" - When God created humans.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

Listen, son. You and I are professionals. If the manager says sacrifice, we lay down a bunt and let somebody else hit the homeruns.

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

Hopefully New Zealand let me stay, and they don't kick me out and ban me. And I hope I don't get killed by a kangaroo, 'cuz I heard that happens out there.