The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.

He never holds friends firmly who watches only after their own wants.

The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity.

As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.

Better be quarrelling than lonesome.

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the wonders of life

I guess the glass ceiling is in the West. For us, it's the glass wall.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.