The sun rises, the sun falls, the wind blows and the birds sing no matter where you are. These are experiences that unite us all... something we can all enjoy together

Don't let a little fear stop you from getting what you want

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where they're going to end up. It's interesting territory for fiction.

Watching something is nothing like doing it.

In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.