The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

I need eclectic people in my life.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

You shouldn’t never regret something that made you smile

It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return.

Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.

If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

The intent of the individuals who created the DDoS attacks has nothing to do with hacking, and they are vandals, not hackers.

You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.