Thus are many identities, over time, shown to be temporary alignments of components involved in a deeper allegiance.

The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years.

A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun—the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Being ninety nine percent sure opens for a possibility that you might be a hundred percent wrong.

Everyone basically has one aria to sing over their entire life.

A good pickpocket isn’t afraid of intimacy.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.

The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.

I think [James Comey] should take a hard look at what he has done. And I think it would not be a bad thing for the American people if he did step down.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.