Isn’t that the fantasy? If I go back in time, knowing what people back then didn’t know, then I can change history! But history made you what you are. And it’s bigger than any one man.

The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies

As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.

This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must.

But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over.

I like Carson. I really like Carson. I can hand an idea to him that's still a little rough, and he can turn it over and tumble it and hand it back to me shining. And I can do the same for him.

But who, in these modern times, slept well?

I can’t comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of interest in time travel. Going backward in time? A black man? You have got to be out of your mind.

Later—how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you—Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.

If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was “false, ” the best thing he could say is that it was “interesting.

She hadn't gone back in time. The idea was

Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.

The writer must write what he has to say not speak it.

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

If you wanna help, inspire, uplift, don't point the blame and talk down.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, No agitation.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?