Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

If we don't protect what we have, it will be destroyed.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

If we value ourselves, we value trees; if we treat our environment right, we treat ourselves right.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane.