Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

A boy's best friend is his mother.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.

Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness.

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

Accepting new challenges makes me come alive.

I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.

If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?

There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet, I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted.

Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes.

You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.