No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

…all the evils of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings.

I don't call myself a writer.

My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.