Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

We move between two darknesses.

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

How would Trump travel as president? Obviously, he'd use Hair Force One.

I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.

We need a new kind of offensive in the Middle East. It's called a peace offensive.

Complaining is an insult to God.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.