I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

The true poem rests between the words.

A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.