There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

Indian summer is like a woman.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I dont think I can, to do things that other people do not think I can. It pushes me. I push my own personal limits.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

I think there is a general interest in films that deal with contemporary issues. Constructions of Iran, Islam, the Middle East as well as the U.S. itself are also of interest, it seems.

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

You should know how to do your job.