CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

You more than anyone else deserve to be loved and happy. Do not remain in any relationship that robs you of those two things.

I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

I know my debt of gratitude to the women who went before, I know my responsibility to young women coming forward.

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

With the risk of being accused of quoting the wrong person I can say that [Adolf] Hitler wrote that "the more the press attacks a person the closer he is to us".