The wind at the top of the mountain is always the strongest, but if you do not give up, the journey down will always be easier.

All the pain on the outside can not undo what is felt on the inside.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.

Buy at a faire, but sell at home. [Buy at a fair, but sell at home.]

I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

Storm, Rain, and Sunshine, huh? (Talon) My mother’s doing. I’m just glad she stopped at three. I was told the next one would have been named Cloudy Day. (Sunshine)

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.