That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

Don't look at me like that, " said Ruza."Like what?""Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.

If you thinks right the right things, then the right thinks will make the things right.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.

One remembers different persons differently, some by the impact they have made on our emotions, and others by the impression they leave in our minds.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.

Well, I thought I was so tranquil! I need to give up that illusion! There is decidedly no rest to be had in this world.

Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.