Sometimes I feel like my whole life before she died was a dream.

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Education forms the common mind.

The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.

If your biggest tax deduction was bail money, you might be a redneck.

You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.