To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.

I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.

Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.

She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.

Everybody gets the same hours in a day

I believe in forgiveness.

Work is what horses die of

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Da Vinci always seemed like the prototype Tony Stark to me.

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood.

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.