Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

I'm not taking Zika lightly. Especially being older, I definitely am going everywhere protected. I'm protecting myself.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.