...a school's worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school...

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

I don't think of myself as an American; I see myself as a human being.

Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and very cool locations and angles and characters.