There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle.

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

The morning is like the inside of a snow-apple.

I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.

I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

This life is only a prelude to eternity.