You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

I need eclectic people in my life.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

The day of birth is a miraculous day.

Rightly onward, pursue your dreams.

Hospital life--with its byzantine array of moving parts layered atop the unpredictable rhythms of illness--is a permanent state of flux.

Your perspective probably depends on where you live.

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

To recognize another's inwardness is to have seen the sacred.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.