People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

I know for me, when I would drink, I circumvented my own self-protection and my own judgment and my own discrimination - the healthy kind of judgment and discrimination.

We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.

Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.