Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.

but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.

I am not my mother. I love her, but I am not her.

Still, experience has taught me that knowing one's enemy is key to winning any battle.

Not even God can change the past.

I won't do that when I'm a parent. I'll make different mistakes, of course.

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.

I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.