The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

To conform is to lose your soul

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

You know what hurts the most? It's when someone made you feel special yesterday and behaves as if you don't exist today.

Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.

The source of man is in man, and when a man dies, millions of men die in him.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.

The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate ourselves from.

There is simply too much to think about.