I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.

It is a reality. People are being victimized or are being targeted to be victims each and every day.

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

Cbercbez lafemme. (Find the woman.)

She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet was the night Softer than satin was the light From the stars She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet were her eyes Warmer than May her tender sighs

I'm not trying to do stuff for my kids necessarily all the time, but when you get the odd opportunity to do something for them that they could enjoy its cool.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament.