I think that "ambition" is a weird and often negatively used word.

They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.

Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.

When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English. I prefer to do my research in books.

Your life is a sculpture, every day chip away.

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.