Utopia never really is. And the perfection we seek will always disappoint.

That's a demon for you. Wants me dead but wants to be sure that he is the one who does me in.

I was a puzzle. An enigma. I was nothing. And then I was again.

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.

He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.

I love free speech.

I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.