But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

God lives in and through the human mind, and not in any church, synagogue, temple or mosque.

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first With Oliver.

Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question.

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.