There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

If I am told to be at a shoot at 10 A.M., I am ready on time. By 11:30, I lose my patience. After that, I keep threatening to leave the sets if they don't begin soon. It works sometimes.

Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous.

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.

I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that.

I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies.