It’s not about getting something

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave.

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.

I drink no more than a sponge.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.