The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

How could Mark be halfway across the world when she would have sworn he'd been in this room with her only seconds ago?

We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20, 000 women.

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

Here's a guy that when he puts his contacts in, he can see better.

I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.