It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!

We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.

The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body