We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

The world is crammed with messages. We’ll never have time to read them all.

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

If you're tired of triviality, maybe it's time you changed your life.

We can only prosper where we are.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.

The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.

I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

The fashion industry is all about storytelling and craftsmanship. Sustainability adds value because it makes that backstory even more impactful.

The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores.