This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.

Don’t you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can’t be done. Focus on the one thing you can do and the 99 won’t matter.

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.

Speak but one word to me.