When you didn't say a lot, he thought, you said the important things.

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

I mean, the radical contingency that is - that exists and the fact that I'm going into the streets and finding random strangers any given day - who's in these streets that day?

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.

If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.