They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change.

The forecast iswe kiss goodbye and never helloall kisses are then parting kisses

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind